Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later in the week, Washington had good news: the Producer Price Index rose ! by a moderate 0.4% in April, a smaller leap than most experts had feared. Wall Street responded Friday by pushing the Dow Jones industrial average up 56.82 points to 2439.70, its highest level since the October 1987 crash. But when the sharp increases that took place during the first four months of the year are taken into account, wholesale prices are still zipping upward at a rapid 9% annual rate. The conflicting trend lines -- down in retail sales, up in producer prices -- heightened concerns about a return...
...answer lies in the contrary way that economists have come to view the world during the long expansion of the 1980s. Instead of bemoaning the big leap in the number of unsuccessful job seekers, the experts cheered it as a sign of a slowdown that lessens the chance of a new burst of inflation. "No matter how bad the news," observes Pierre Rinfret, a Manhattan-based economic consultant, "the market will find something good in it." Just as the market, which seems to obey none of the usual rules, almost always manages to find something bad in the very best...
...quality can prevail, then the success of Something Real ought to put some long distance between Snow and ditties for AT&T. "If you survive something traumatic," she says, "you are never the same again. If you survive two traumatic things, you take a quantum leap in your spiritual self. You're never the same again. Life is looking up. I am a crying towel, but thank God I can do that. I don't know where I'd be if I didn't cry at least once a week." That's the real beat beneath her new album...
...very different than an incremental science--this is a great leap," Huggins says, adding that one must have a historical perspective in the debate. When W.K. Roentgen discovered X-rays, Huggins says, all his research was published in the press before the papers were published in academic journals...
...then, the great leap forward. An equally random visit to a bookstore in an Uvarovo housing complex turned up the unexpected: two copies of George Bush's autobiography, Looking Forward, translated into Russian. The shop manager told me he had already sold 28 copies...