Word: leapfrogged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fast-rising land prices also aggravate urban decay, suburban sprawl and even the energy shortage. Real estate developers often "leapfrog" over expensive land close to cities to find cheaper sites farther out; on the outskirts of Phoenix, houses are climbing mountainsides. The less expensive houses in those distant areas lure residents and businesses from the city, reducing the urban tax base. Mass transportation is uneconomical in the far suburbs; so their residents become totally dependent on the auto, increasing the strain on the nation's fuel supplies...
Republican Senator Edward Gurney, who has considerable sympathy for the President's position, wrote Ervin last week, suggesting that the committee immediately leapfrog to the central question-how involved, if at all, is Nixon? "To continue the present leisurely pace opens us up to severe criticism," he argued. "Both the President and the nation deserve better than this." Special Prosecutor Cox is also unhappy with the Senate hearings, but for other reasons. Last week he told the committee's chief counsel, Samuel Dash, that the televised proceedings might easily prejudice the outcome of prosecutions arising from the grand...
...provided encouraging signs of a slowdown in the wage-price spiral. In recent years, unions have justified exorbitant wage settlements by pointing to ever higher cost of living increases, and companies have been able to pass along higher costs to the consumer almost with impunity. That game of economic leapfrog now has some new rules. As aerospace workers and steel executives learned, those who jump too far are apt to land out of bounds...
...conflict between them first surfaced publicly in 1968 at an S.C.L.C. national convention in Memphis, when Jackson started angling for a post high in the S.C.L.C. hierarchy. The board of directors, made up of older ministers and professional men, turned him down. Said one observer: "He tried to leapfrog too many people who were working harder than himself." Last year Jackson was asked to move Breadbasket headquarters to Atlanta; he refused. Abernathy backed down, but after that, Jackson's resignation was only a matter of time. When he finally quit three weeks ago, he said he needed "room...
...packages on the Martian surface. That seemed to confirm speculation by U.S. space officials, who had anticipated a Russian landing attempt simply on the basis of the great lift-off weight of Mars 2 and 3 (about 10,000 lbs. each). If their landers work properly, the Russians will leapfrog ahead of the U.S. by at least four years in the exploration of Mars; NASA does not expect to launch its Viking landers before...