That focus group, however, underscored just how huge a hurdle Epsilon must leap--namely, GM's brand image.
The leap-frogging in displays of wealth has created a bubble that has showed no signs of slowing.
Microsoft, which no longer produces Zunes, declined to comment on any likelihood of leap-year bugs this year.
The total is expected to nearly double next year, leap-frogging Indonesia for the title of second largest market.
In some manufacturing sectors, South-East Asia was able to leap-frog into new technologies because it could attract foreign investment.
Instead, it has actually leap-frogged the harder stuff (ie, analogue devices) to get to newer and easier digital products.
The planes, scheduled for delivery in 2017, will use CFM International LEAP-1B engines.
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One code-writer's trick, for instance, was to encode dates using the 1, 461 days that make up a full leap-year cycle.
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There's nothing like a bleak outlook and stunning losses from a variety of finance firms to put a damper on leap-day festivities.
West Brom cannot be ruled out but it would require a very strong finish to leap-frog four teams currently ahead of them.
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In May this year 26.8 million people visited the site, with Facebook leap-frogging MSN to become the UK's second most visited site.
His mother Mary Ann, 79 years old, a leap-day baby who will celebrate her 20th birthday next Wednesday, suggested the idea in 1988.
In Connecticut, there was a 23% increase in earnings during the period in question and nearly 50% of the lowest earning residents leap-frogged their peers.
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The thing's blazingly fast, leap-frogging the 333-MHz chip by 21 percent.
Indonesians have leap-frogged a generation of technology, and now download data and use social media largely through smartphones, rather than mobile phones and personal computers.
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Today, Prince Charles is aging, he has two bright children who've avoided scandal so far, it's going to be very interesting to see if he's leap-frogged by them.
Meanwhile, CFM International, a joint venture between GE and SNECMA which provides engines for more than 60% of Boeing's and Airbus's planes, is promoting a rival design called Leap-X.
As well as passing Sobers' 26 Test tons, Lara also leap-frogged Sunil Gavaskar (10, 122) and Sachin Tendulkar (10, 134) into third place in the all-time leading run-scorers in Test cricket.
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Brawn's Button remains in the world championship lead on 68 points but Vettel and Webber have leap-frogged over Barrichello, who angrily accused his own team of costing him victory after the race.
Attackers can still conceal their point of origin by looping or leap-frogging several computer systems in several countries before finally going into the system that is being attacked as well as those pursuing them.
However, Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group, an aviation consultancy, thinks there is more technological risk with the Leap-X than with the GTF and greater uncertainty about whether it will deliver the same cost savings.
That means there are vast opportunities for Asians to stake Internet territory at home applying and adapting the better ideas while leap-frogging some of the mistakes and missteps made (understandable in a new arena) in Silicon Valley.
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The leftist Syriza Party of Greece, which had characterized austerity policies of the current government as serving the interest of bankers, oligarchs and plutocrats at the expense of ordinary Greeks ended up leap-frogging Pasok for second place.
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There aren't too many occasions in life where one is called upon to climb a pole to a great height, stand atop it and then leap off--albeit while firmly strapped into a safety harness.
The transactions also include intra-market exchanges between Leap, T-Mobile and Cook Inlet, in Philadelphia, Wilmington, Atlantic City and various markets in Texas and New Mexico, and between Leap and Cook Inlet in certain markets in Texas.
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We are likely to see hybrid silicon-graphene transistors before we take the leap to all-graphene-based electronics.
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