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...China's future: We will persist in developing democracy and a legal system. This is our party's unswerving policy. But achieving democracy and a legal system, as with achieving modernization, cannot be done with a great leap...
...down, yoing, yoing, yoing, that is where we would be. Can't have that; no one ever got any aluminum siding sold or orthodontia bills paid while dangling from a bungee cord. And Tabin, a Harvard medical student, admits that an alcohol-fueled, top-hat-and-tails leap off of Colorado's 1,053-ft.-high Royal Gorge bridge in 1980 required "no skill, just a little stupidity and a fairly calculated risk...
...worth it. Hearn's bravura performance is one of the marvels of recent theater seasons. An actor who has been in 115 plays but never quite achieved stardom, he has now strutted to the top. If it is exciting to see a young actor leap forward, it is even more so to see one in mid-career suddenly show the enormous range of his talents...
...total cost of the 1983-84 school year at MIT will leap 10.8 percent to $15,130, replacing Harvard as the most expensive college, followed by Bennington College, up 9.5 percent to $14,910, and Harvard up 7.8 percent...
SWITZERLAND. Despite the country's expensive image, more and more Americans are heading for the Matterhorn. In 1982 there was a more than 15% leap in the number of nights spent by U.S. guests in Swiss hotels; a 10% jump is expected this year. Thanks to an inflation rate that has averaged 4.5% over the past five years, some hotels have not raised prices since 1980. In addition, notes John Geissler of the Swiss National Tourist Office, "you can eat in ordinary restaurants with reasonable prices and have a very good meal. You do not have...