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...During the past decade, sales have leaped forward as " never before, spurred by a superpower struggle to gain Third World allies and a leap in oil prices that brought eager buyers into the market...
Eliot House, however, opened the game's scoring late in the first quarter by capping off a fifty-yard drive with a Bill Cavanaugh touchdown leap which put the team ahead 6-0. The lead lasted only a short while, as an 18-yard Slack-to-Corky McLeod touchdown pass with no time remaining in the first half tied...
...years since his employment, China has gone through severe changes--the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution. Yao prefers not to talk of these phases, acknowledging that he "had some very unpleasant experiences," and aditting that "in retrospect, many of those policies were wrong." But he is concerned that people "will not understand the situation." Mao, he says, was a "man of integrity." "I'm not defending the Chairman's mistakes, he explains, "but China was too long behind the mainstream of the world. We were crying, wanting to change...
...cars. Nowhere have the Angels been accused of abusing their positions; this fact is especially salient because the Angels are not favorites of the police, who do not enjoy being shown up in their line of work. The Angels carry no weapons and can only make citizens arrests. The leap of imagination between these kids and Mussolini's brown shirts seems profound indeed...
Many teachers and parents are skeptical of computer-controlled, cartoon-like learning devices. They wonder, as Author Fran Lebowitz has put it, what happens when the child "discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens." But the juvenile appetite for dancing letters appears to be insatiable. Indeed, this fall some of the computer software, designed by Children's Television Workshop of New York City, creators of Sesame Street and Sesame Place, will be available in computer retail shops and by direct mail from Apple...