Word: leapfrogged
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...bright engineer foundered when confronted with practical policy decisions. Habibie boasted of being able to "leapfrog" low-skill industries, which would have given needed employment to the country's vast mass of unskilled laborers, and move straight into expensive high-tech ventures. The billions of dollars of public money he spent on his strategic companies did little to advance industrial development. His most extravagant pet project, a $2 billion attempt to build an indigenous aircraft, the propeller-driven N-250, was deprived of state funding as a condition of IMF assistance...
...added their second tally in the bottom of the fourth on another misplaced ball in the outfield. Scott followed a Carlton Fisk single with an opposite-field liner to right, which Reggie Jackson decided to play leapfrog with, letting the ball bound off his glove and over his head. Fisk cruised home, and with starter Luis Tiant mowing down Yankees right and left, the Sox 2-0 lead looked strong...
Should BETA spot a signal that seems to meet the programmed criteria for artificiality, the radio telescope would abandon its fixed position and automatically leapfrog farther west so that the same sector of sky would pass before it again. If the suspect signal should then reappear in the same location, Leigh says, "alarms won't go off, but the computer will send us E-mail." And unlike earlier SETI programs, which sometimes signaled "hits" that after much excitement and analysis turned out to be beeps from prosaic Earthbound or orbiting electronic sources, BETA methodically compares signals from space to signals...
...think the countouts will make Davis leapfrog over McSweeney," said former CCA President R. Philip Dowds...
...China deploying its new might just locally. It is sending missile and nuclear technology to such places as Pakistan and Iran. The Pakistan connection represents a flanking maneuver against China's traditional enemy, India; Iran, a leapfrog to make trouble for that old imperial master, the West...