Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middle East. To call that criticism anti-Semitic is to inject venom into a vital public debate, one that ought to be as free as possible of extremist rhetoric. Equating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism is certainly as wrong-headed as equating Zionism with racism. Neither illogical leap covers any distance towards the paramount goal--a just and permanent peace for both Israelis and Palestinians...
...project is financially "a quantum leap beyond anything we've done in the past," Pallotta said. The group previously raised about $6000 a year sponsoring fasts in House dining halls...
Financial investors, meanwhile, were not so downbeat. The New York Stock Exchange tallied a record leap on Wednesday, and a record volume the following day (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...Like Woodrow Wilson, who along with Harry Truman seems to have been one of Carter's presidential idols, he demanded a certain brand of morality from those he dealt with abroad. Yet his Administration got burned across the globe by nations less-scrupulous than ours Iran. Afghanistan, and Poland leap to mind as sites of American humiliation between 1977 and 1981. Even today, however, Carter indicates he has no regrets about extending his politics of faith abroad...
They're impressed and even awed by what they see in Japan, South Korea, Singapore and the other non-Communist countries of Asia as compared to their own situation. They know that what China needs is a true Great Leap Forward and that Communism won't get them there...