Word: leapfrogged
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...Libyan Leapfrog. The current quarrel started last summer when the revolutionary Libyan regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi set out to pump better terms out of the producing companies. Libya has a strong bargaining position. Its chief port of Tripoli is located only 600 miles from Rome. Most other Middle East oil must be shipped over a long and costly route to Europe. Libya demanded a 30? increase in the posted price of its oil-the price used to calculate the tax paid by companies. That would bring it to $2.53 a barrel. Gaddafi also insisted that the traditional...
ORGANIZATION: Scandinavian unions are organized in large groupings that minimize jurisdictional squabbles. Unions do not try to raid each other for members or to leapfrog each other's gains. Secure in their jobs, labor leaders are free from rank-and-file pressure to win ever higher wage settlements...
...means, however, have the Russians dropped out entirely. Just before the scheduled Apollo 11 shot, the Russians launched an unmanned spaceship toward the moon-in an obvious attempt to win some attention away from the U.S. Actually, some U.S. space officials believe that Moscow has decided to leapfrog the moon and head for the planets...
...many cases, however, the game of catch-up threatens to turn into an inflationary game of leapfrog. The 49% increase achieved by Lorain construction workers was intended to bring their pay and benefits by next summer up to levels prevailing in nearby Cleveland. But Cleveland building unionists, seeking to restore their primacy, now vow to press for a still larger raise in negotiations next spring...
Meanwhile, the undertaxation of land helps speculators hold property out of use while they wait for a city's growth to raise its price. As buildings leapfrog around the holdouts, other taxpayers generally have to foot the bill for the costly roads, water and sewer lines that make land richly salable. In addition to encouraging the growth of "slurbs"-half-city, half-country belts with the worst features of both - the process has driven up costs of homesites by 68% in the past eight years, forcing many families out of the market. "Today's property tax," says Robert...