Word: leapingly
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...going into business for yourself is fun, especially for women longing for a sense of adventure. "I don't think boomers are going to join the Junior League and have tea," she says. When they do the cost/benefit analysis of staying in a job they dislike or taking a leap of faith, more and more women are ready to jump. "I think part of the elixir is the learning. Part is the control. Part of the reason is just the idea, 'I better take control of my own nest egg because no one else is going...
LUCAS Star Wars was written very carefully around the limits of technology. I had one big technological leap that I had to make, and that was to be able to pan the spaceships. I thought I knew enough about animation that I could make that happen. Everything else was written for what I knew I could get away with, given the fact that I had a limited budget, limited resources. But in terms of having creatures? I could barely get the cantina scene done. I had a couple of really stupid rubber masks. I had to go back...
Junior Samyr Laine won the triple jump with combined 14.67 meters, and senior Travis Hughes narrowly defeated the Bears’ Deshaun Mars by .2 meters to win the long jump with a 6.76-meter leap...
...branding iron, while another scrapes his knife across a whetstone. Three others climb atop their mounts to lasso the calves from among the dozen skittish critters in the tight pen. One crazy cow, a 1,500-lb. mother with twisting horns sharpened for the gore, tries twice to leap the fence but fails, landing with a thud hard enough to shake your ancestors...
...group, Australian manufacturers are not frightened by China's great leap, but they are wary. According to Heather Ridout, the chief executive of Australian Industry Group, a combination of the two Cs - currency appreciation and China - has caused a slackening of factory exports. In a 2004 survey of members, the manufacturers' lobbyist found that 60% of respondents are restructuring their businesses in response to the pressures being generated by China. Union leaders fear more job losses, saying the country will simply become a quarry and that pay and conditions will be cut in a "race to the bottom" with...