Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with its ongoing Administrative Data Project (ADP), the University is attempting to leap into the modern...
This life-flashing-before-your-eyes scenario perfectly complements Bergman's striking, stark camerawork. Silhouettes, chiseled features and barebones austerity leap from every image. Even the cluttered country houses accentuate by their very contrast the simple, arresting composition of every frame. Bergman boils down sets and actors to ideal types: the old seem remarkably wrinkly and thoughtful, the young unbelievably unblemished and ebullient...
Microsoft released its long-awaited Windows 95 operating system in August; the Empire State Building wore the colors of Win95 and the Times of London went free for a day, all courtesy of Uncle Bill. Does use of Windows 95 yield a giant leap in productivity for most people? No. A small leap? No. A couple of baby steps? Maybe. But the upgrade comes with a damn good version of Solitaire (oh wait, that came with Windows...
...sculpted like a diplomatic communique. I know that I will have to, if I enter public life, come down on those issues. But I haven't declared myself a candidate. I will have to learn, but it doesn't mean I have to rush through it right now and leap down an elevator shaft. What you're asking me to do is put myself up on Capitol Hill and say exactly whether I'm for the Clinton version of welfare reform or the Bob Dole version of welfare reform. I don't know enough...
...using any of Fuhrman's 18 statements about police misconduct and attacked the defense theory that Fuhrman had moved a glove from the murder scene to Simpson's house to engineer a frame-up. "This assertion is not supported by the record," Ito said. "The underlying assumption requires a leap in both law and logic that is too broad to be made based upon the evidence before the jury...