Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debuts along with most other new network series next week, it will be clear that the show's star Brooke Shields has been kept exceedingly busy. During the course of the 22-min. premiere episode, Shields' straitlaced Susan Keane leaves her wealthy fiance at the altar, makes the improbable leap from copy editor to columnist at a hip San Francisco magazine (we know it's hip because editor in chief Judd Nelson has installed a rock-climbing wall behind his desk), gets drunk on Jell-O shots, sings It's Raining Men and further embraces her nascent singlehood with earnestly...
...many of us, the thought of matrimony between two members of the same sex requires an emotional and cultural leap that we find hard to make. Republicans pushing the bill hope to play on that difficulty and grab a wedge issue for the election...
...danger of geomagnetic storms is even worse, however, during solar maximum. At that time, long tongues of fiery plasma leap from the surface of the sun and rush toward earth like guided missiles. Sometimes the force of their impact is so great that the magnetosphere convulsively contracts. Even spacecraft in near-earth orbit can find themselves outside the magnetosphere's protective embrace, exposed to blasts of high-energy protons. A direct hit by these protons, experts warn, could prove lethal to astronauts working in space...
...anyone considered that the "life on Mars" discovery may be a carefully rendered hoax, not unlike the cold-fusion misadventure of a few years ago? After all, NASA is threatened by major budget cuts. The world's interest in space has made a giant leap forward, and many churches are nervous about attacks on creationism. Scientists have not claimed they have found definitive proof of extraterrestrial life, yet the microscopic evidence is being treated as such by most of the media. Even if scientists did find a bacterial fossil that was truly from Mars, that's still a long...
...allies are determined to act if necessary. But they don't want to leap into battle if the threat is going to blow away after the November elections. European officials have taken in the fact that Clinton has suspended much of the effect of Helms-Burton until next year and promises to waive or apply the D'Amato provisions on a careful, case-by-case basis. "Clinton wants to show he is doing something concrete," says a French diplomat. "We are hearing that things may change by the end of November." Even so, declares French spokesman Doutriaux, "what we want...