Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dust. A border guard comes out to check the driver's identity papers. Suddenly a squad of armed customs agents bursts from a nearby hut. The driver guns the engine and slams through the barricade. The agents open fire. The truck swerves to a stop. Four men leap out and escape into the gathering dusk. The agents, led by a 39-year-old Pathan tribesman named Jehangir Khan, are only perfunctory in their pursuit. They are more interested in the truck's cargo: 421 kilos of heroin, worth $250 million uncut and up to $1 billion...
...ready to be sacrificed. But they pull it off. Clad in overstaffed purple tunics, cousins to the Fruit of the Loom grapes, they whisper hilarious jibberish to each other at the approach of a hungry fox, then break out into a scornful jive patois when the fox can't leap far enough to pluck them from their vise. Close and Dotten fill up the stage with their voices, their pantomimes and their humor...
...heart of the election campaign is the Socialist economic record. The government began with a quixotic attempt to spend the country out of a recession. When inflation started to leap out of control, the government switched directions, clamping on a four-month wage and price freeze and then imposing an austerity program that limited wage increases and lowered unemployment benefits. One of the right's most damning accusations is that middle-class Frenchmen have suffered a net loss of purchasing power under the Socialists...
...jumping events co-captain Gus Udo won the long jump with a leap of 23-ft 2-in and led teammates Mark Henry and Shawn Hall to a sweep of the triple jump Henry also won the high jump and qualified for the IC4As with a leap of 6 ft 10 1/4-in...
...endowment is intended to sponsor research and doctoral programs in the area of business leadership. "The Business School and American society has proven that it can train good managers but we need leaders," Zaleznik said, adding that the chair represents a "quantum leap and shows Harvard's commitment to leadership...