Word: leaping
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...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...
...India insists that the treaty include a commitment to nuclear disarmament, a quantum diplomatic leap other nuclear nations prefer to tackle later. The Indian Parliament says this only confirms the monopoly of the U.S, Russia, China, Britain and France Scot Woods...
...India insists that the treaty include a commitment to nuclear disarmament, a quantum diplomatic leap other nuclear nations prefer to tackle later. The Indian Parliament says this only confirms the monopoly of the U.S, Russia, China, Britain and France Scot Woods...
...movie also has a pleasantly surprising treat: a fine eye for physical comedy and comic bluff. (After all, dubbing can only have camp appeal for so long.) Here Chan wobbles on the top of a train; there Khan tries to leap into a house and bounces like a tennis ball off the window Chan has just closed. In another very funny bit, Chan, undercover with the help of an artificially effusive family, leads an escaped convict to hide in a village that he must pretend he grew...
...took 15 years, however, for Mahler to grow into an obsession. In the meantime, Kaplan had founded the investment magazine that made his fortune, and thus had the financial underpinning for what seemed an impossible leap: from Mahler fan to Mahler interpreter. "At age 40, I woke up one morning and knew in my mind that I was going to conduct this piece," says Kaplan...