Word: leapingly
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...over more than 140 executions) are out of sync with the the thinking of many European governments. "Europeans were already worried about the cultural gap between them and the U.S.," says Philip Gordon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, "and we've just taken a political leap which seems to make that gap worse...
...increased a respectable 16% to $191.3 billion, while earnings hit a record $6.3 billion-a 17% jump. But hidden amid that thicket of good news is a thorny problem: Wal-Mart's European operations aren't reaching the levels of growth needed to make the company's expensive leap across the pond pay off. "Wal-Mart has not yet succeeded in markets that it cannot drive a truck to," says London-based investment bank WestLB Panmure in a recent analysis that concludes the retailer hasn't successfully replicated its American business model in markets not adjacent...
...Friars are clinging to the last playoff spot in the ECAC, two points ahead of ninth place Maine. Providence can leap frog Niagara, sliding into the seventh playoff spot and avoiding a first round confrontation with Dartmouth by winning one of its games this weekend. The Friars will try to pick up that victory against either Dartmouth or Boston College, which only has one ECAC win this season...
...McLaughlin added, the selection of a president is "a leap of faith...
...LEAP AHEAD Dick and Jane may have taught millions of us how to read, but we never heard them talk. Imagination Desk, from LeapFrog's Fall 2001 line of educational toys, is a touch-sensitive coloring book that chatters away, guiding kids through reading and writing lessons. The company's game plan is to offer free printable pages (with sound effects) on the Web so Mom and Dad won't start to panic as their little reader nears the letter...