Word: leaps
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Peking's leaders take a great leap outward to modernization...
...which threatens it, and involves you in the adventures as if you were there. Bakshi's world is merely a cartoon, somehow you can't get around that whether you know the books or not, as my companion who had never read them attested. Perhaps Bakshi asked for a leap of imagination that was too great for me to make -- Tolkien certainly asks for one that is too great for many. But there is a difference between Tolkien's subtle, literary appeal and Bakshi's visual ultimatum...
...pleas that it shovel in more, no matter how intense the demand for loans becomes, and let interest rates go wherever the market takes them. The board has traditionally resisted that approach out of fear that an abrupt crackdown in an inflationary economy would cause interest rates to leap up so violently as to produce financial chaos. Miller has said that if the board had tried that strategy in 1974 the prime rate would have hit 20%, and "as a former businessman [he was chairman of Textron at the time] I can tell you that such a level of rates...
...Treasury aide initially told Carter that the increase would be the largest since 1921. Demonstrating his awesome?and to some advisers infuriating ?grasp of detail, the President quickly corrected him: there had been a one-point leap in 1933, and the 1921 boost the aide had been thinking of was actually a point and a quarter...
What is the attraction? Most jumpers tell you they made the first leap to see what it was like or to prove something to themselves, to overcome that perfectly sensible fear of diving from an airplane into a void above the hard ground. If they stay with it, and perhaps only 10% do after the first scary jump or two, they develop what Kim Adams, 31, a graduate student in anthropology at Rutgers, calls "parachuting personalities, incredibly independent, uninhibited." Sky diving becomes a way of life, infinitely challenging, indescribably energizing...