Word: leapfrogged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only one with his eye on the information-highway prize. Atari has announced a $200 game system called Jaguar that could steal some of 3DO's sparkle this fall. Both Sega and Nintendo are rumored to have 3DO-class machines in development. And last month Nintendo announced plans to leapfrog ahead with a game machine built around a % 64-bit chip, which has twice the power...
...given that current Gov. William F. Weld '66, a Republican, lives three blocks from Barrett in the same North Cambridge neighborhood as Wolf, the announcement makes Cambridge a hotbed of political activity, with local elected officials playing leapfrog in a way that is without recent precedent...
...historical determinism may have been drummed into their heads in courses on Marxist-Leninist dogma, but they have never stopped believing that history moves in a circle, not a straight line. Ask a wrinkled babushka selling vodka on the street about Yeltsin's chances of success, and she will leapfrog back in memory over Mikhail Gorbachev's ill- fated perestroika to recall the doomed attempt by Nikita Khrushchev to break the stranglehold of the Stalinist past. An intellectual will delve even further into Russia's history, comparing Yeltsin's policies to the failed campaigns of reform-minded Czars like Peter...
...that Otisca was born at the wrong time in the wrong place. Other technologies and energy sources may leapfrog over the concept of a precleaned coal slurry. In that case, the Jamesville plant, Doug Keller and Clay Smith will be a brief, forgotten chapter in American industrial and environmental history. That would not be atypical. Nine out of 10 inventors never see a penny from their ideas. Far fewer get to be Henry Fords or Thomas Watsons...
Telecommunications and Development: Are There Practical Means to Leapfrog the Process?--by John Gilbert, former director general, Dept. of Communications, Canada, and former executive secretary, Maitland Commission. Coolidge Hall, room...