Word: leapfrogged
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...ignorant coaches, the scores look practically identical and thus the games must have been equivalent. Since I’m a fan of logic, I guess I’ll never be able to figure out how they decided to leapfrog Western Illinois over Penn...
Matisse and Picasso played a game of diagonal leapfrog, each using the other's work as a springboard to a new direction. So it was partly the young Picasso's confrontation with Matisse's Fauve canvases that pushed him toward Cubism. Matisse looked over Picasso's explosive venture, recoiled, then replied with pictures that exploded old notions of space without violating his profound compliance with the ideal of beauty...
...Hoping to leapfrog this roadblock, Murdoch has been currying favor with Beijing ever since his Star satellite network, which runs nine channels in China, got a foothold on the mainland. The relationship got off to a rocky start in 1993, after Murdoch offended authorities by declaring that satellite broadcasting threatens "totalitarian regimes everywhere." Since then, Murdoch has chosen not to irritate the Communist Party. In 1999 he ordered HarperCollins, News Corp.'s publishing arm, to drop a book by former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten because it was critical of Beijing and, shortly after, dismissed the Dalai Lama...
...Saharan Africa has just one phone line for every 70 people, in contrast to almost one per person in the U.S. and Europe. But by using cell-phone technology, Africa hopes to leapfrog a stage in development, just as parts of Asia have done. In the past six years the number of mobile connections in Africa has jumped from 2 million to 35 million...
...industry where consumers have come to resent being promised so much yet receiving so little (WAP, anyone?) But Hutchison has decided the potential benefits, which could be vast, outweigh the risks, no matter how daunting. As a new entrant without any legacy network to upgrade, 3 is hoping to leapfrog the competition and establish an important early foothold in the telecom standard for the future?a future in which slower rivals are stuck with outmoded networks, just when consumer demand for high-speed wireless data service starts to sizzle...