Word: leaping
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...modernity. This led them to adopt the American political system. Their attempt failed, in part, because Mexico for three centuries had been a Roman Catholic monarchy; neither its people nor its leaders had experienced the great spiritual, political and economic revolution with which modernity began. We wanted to leap from a traditional society to a modern one, but we lacked the bourgeois and middle classes, and the intellectual and technical elements that had made change possible in Europe...
...sold the cartridges and the consoles better than Warner's ten-year-old Atari. By acquiring the rights to popular arcade games like Space Invaders and Pac-Man, and designing them to fit players of its own manufacture, Atari saw its sales leap from $30 million in 1976 to $1.1 billion last year. As late as last summer it still held about 80% of the world market, and in doing so had got a lock on an enormously profitable business in which cartridges that cost only about $6 to manufacture can usually be sold for a retail price...
...window on a forbidden world. It is the video cassette recorder (VCR). As sales of the machine move into fast forward around the world (Japanese manufacturers, the world's leaders, have shipped 3.5 million units to Europe during the first three quarters of this year, a leap of 196% over last year), it threatens to replace the television aerial as the most familiar symbol of the global village...
Quintero's was not the only outstanding field event performance. Senior Jimmy Johnson, one of last year's jumping superstars, continued where he left off last year winning the long jump handily with a leap of 24 ft., 5 in, only a few inches off his personal best...
...Jimmy Johnson are back competing in the long jump and should continue to dominate their Ivy opposition Senior Mark Henry will be competing in the high jump, where he will be joined by freshmen Doug Boyd, who has cleared 6 ft 8 in. in a practice leap...