Word: leapfrogging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four decades. As Bush himself says, the opportunity is historic. The idea that the Warsaw Pact would launch a land invasion of Western Europe, which is what most of NATO expenditures are designed to prevent, has become nearly inconceivable. "It may be time to abandon incrementalism for a leapfrog approach, to see if we can really make a basic change in our relationship," says former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke...
...struggles to regain momentum in its space shuttle program, Western Europe's Arianespace, the commercial arm of the 13-nation European Space Agency, has completed 33 launches and has $2.1 billion worth of contracts on its order books. On the research front, Western Europe is poised to leapfrog the U.S. in the esoteric but strategically important field of high-energy physics. Funded by 14 European countries, the European Center for Particle Physics in Switzerland has completed construction of the world's most powerful particle accelerator. Last month the $660 million 16-mile supercollider began yielding results that promise to place...
...There was zealotry but also an attitude that the law was frustrating them from a noble cause," said Liman, who led the Senate questioning of North and other participants in the affair. "But rather than bow to these laws, they had to leapfrog them...
Shrieking children and splashing water hardly typifies you usual metropolitan museum exhibit. But then again, with its leapfrog computer games and automobile video displays, the Children's Museum of Boston is not your typical marble and musty chamber...
Inside the center, a large glass-fronted cage in the main building's vestibule displays 10 young crab-eating macaques Macaca Fascicularis--the most common species at the center--playing triple leapfrog and swinging on a network of pipes...