Word: leapfrogs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...control its assets. It must appeal for money to the city's Democratic administration, which in turn depends on the state's Republican legislature for about one-third of its school funds. Union pressure against the board is thus a charade: the real game is to leapfrog the board and play off the rival politicians...
...Queen Victoria's funeral in 1901, cannons in London boomed a ceremonial farewell-and villagers 90 miles away were startled by the rumbling volley. Yet not a shot was heard in towns halfway between. What caused the funereal boom to leapfrog...
...appropriated; even after they are, a long process of initial design competition, proposals and discussions must follow. In fact, there is still a major division over the crucial question of how fast a plane to build. The airframe makers want a Mach 3 jet (2,000 m.p.h.) that will leapfrog the Mach 2.2 Concorde; National Airlines President Lewis Maytag Jr. and American President C. R. Smith both want slower planes; and Federal Aviation Agency Administrator Najeeb Halaby has not made up his mind...
...Leapfrog Across the Acropolis. Also among the superfluous, he said, are the large numbers of military personnel. In his last post, that of Ambassador to Greece, Briggs recalled, there were 70 sailors, soldiers and airmen attached to the embassy. "Had I been able to deploy them for three hours every morning in full-dress uniform, playing leapfrog across the Acropolis, that would have made as much sense as most of the attache duties they solemnly declared they were engaged...
...Germany's lean years after World War II, ex-General Staff Major Egon Overbeclc, now 44, financed his studies at Frankfurt University by working for Metallgesellschaft, a widely diversified industrial combine. After earning a doctorate in business administration in 1952, Overbeck stayed on with the company, began to leapfrog up the executive ladder. His big break came in 1956 when he was named chief financial and administrative officer of one of Metallgesell-schaft's major subsidiaries. He was lured away from that post by rival Mannesmann, West Germany's second largest steelmaker (after Krupp), which was searching...