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If Exxon took over Mobil--the most likely scenario, experts say--the resultant company could be worth $160 billion, says the WP . Though both Exxon and Mobil stocks leaped at the news, the WP uses paragraph two to cite cautious experts who worry that various factors--among them the "intense, independent personalities of the two firms' chief executives"--could yet derail the deal.
But when it was surrounded by enemy craft, the last of the loyal commanders seized the eight-year-old monarch in his arms and leaped with him to death in the sea.
It was soon flourishing; with its natural harbor that attracted ships, Hong Kong leaped to the forefront as a base for trade.
All papers front the latest on Brazil's economic roller-coaster: The Brazilian stock market leaped 33 percent Friday as the government decided to let its currency, the real, drop to market level (the real obliged, plummeting nine percent more).
Also, if you enter jump , you get the synonyms for that; but if you enter jumped , you get the (same) synonyms but inflected—including the variants leapt, leaped for leap . All in all, for a relatively primitive system, it is not too bad; but you would have to be in love with your computer to use it in preference to a far more complete books of synonyms available (especially The Synonym Finder , Rodale in the U.S. and Canada, Longman elsewhere, which offers more than 800,000 synonyms, more than three times the number listed in any other synonym book).