Word: spring-board
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...more after school, she practices her aces and backhands, flat serves and chip shots, footwork and block volleys. "Trying harder makes up for my starting in tennis too late," she says. "All right, I won't jump as high as Elena Dementieva, but tennis is still my spring-board - the only one I have to take me out of here." This week, Zhbanova and thousands of other teenagers across Russia will be glued to their TV sets, watching Dementieva and the rest of a new generation of Russian tennis stars compete in the U.S. Open. The sport has become...
...complicated technical standards for dance floors—like spring-board flooring and high ceilings—have also ruled a host of other buildings in and around the Square...
Also contributing to Harvard's domination of Princeton and Yale was sophomore Greg Walker's sixth-place finish in the one-meter spring-board...
Both Furtado and Rogers point to thestill-strong fish processing industry in NewBedford as a possible spring-board for economicrevitalization...
...diving team also won handily, defeating Army 169-95. Junior Vaughn Emerson took first in the 1m spring-board and second in the 3m, complemented by freshman Matt Murray, who placed first in the 3m and second...