And in one respect many consumers in emerging markets are leapfrogging over their Western peers.
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Couper also suggests leapfrogging over HR if you get no response to your follow-up note.
The Trotters thrashed Newcastle 5-1, leapfrogging Manchester City after their third win in four matches.
That leapfrogging should put Intel's gross profit margin, already better than AMD's, still further ahead.
The most optimistic scenario for Microsoft is that it is playing catch-up by leapfrogging.
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Expect those companies to start leapfrogging their competitors as they reap the ROI from their mobile investments.
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Hibs move up to second place in the Scottish Premier League, leapfrogging Rangers, who play on Sunday.
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Those funds would finance the practical implementation of our rapidly advancing science, leapfrogging our economy further generations ahead.
While many US startups are splitting hairs on the fringe of mobile indifference, emerging markets are leapfrogging into mobile.
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With 3, 000 copies sold in its first week, "Leapfrogging" hit No. 3 on the Journal's hardcover business best-seller list.
Since then, the race changed leaders several times, with front-runners leapfrogging each other.
That would essentially be leapfrogging a whole level of graphics and hardware, but the Wii needs to do just that.
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For the record, it's 14-35, with the Wizards leapfrogging Orlando into 13th place in the Eastern Conference with Friday's win.
Milan's 13th win of the season moves it up to fourth in the league, leapfrogging rivals Inter, which plays Fiorentina Saturday.
The Redskins are advancing four places from sixth in the April draft, leapfrogging any other team that would have an interest in Mr. Griffiin, the Baylor quarterback.
Record profits, and a resulting surge in the share price of the holding company Inditex that he owns, has propelled Mr Ortega from fifth place, leapfrogging Mr Buffett.
He reminded me that before the acquisition I had invented a product line and, by leapfrogging a dozen entrenched competitors, had made it number one in its category.
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Because technology, both hardware and software, tends to operate on an annual update cycle, every year you have to worry about a competitor leapfrogging you in that cycle.
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Instead of United drawing level with Chelsea at the top of the table, it is Martin O'Neill's side who are this week's significant movers, leapfrogging Tottenham and Arsenal.
Manchester United moved into second place, leapfrogging Barcelona and Juventus, thanks to a season in which they won the Premier League and reached both the Champions League semi-final and FA Cup final.
Like those industries, new entrants will embrace those forces to reset the competitive landscape, leapfrogging current technology offerings and processes to create new models that solve for the business problems of tomorrow.
Two Apache helicopter gunships roar through the valley, bank hard and circle back over the village, providing more cover for the Afghan and U.S. Special Forces now leapfrogging from one building to another.
Berrett-Koehler said "Leapfrogging" sold about 11, 000 print copies between August and December 2012, including several thousand outside the U.S. Mr. Kaplan says sales were also boosted by references in various articles and media interviews.
This leapfrogging has already happened with telephone systems: Developing countries that lacked land-line telephone and broadband connectivity, such as India, made the leap directly to mobile systems rather than build out their land-line infrastructures.
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Ironically, the same race also caused what he has described as his one regret in racing - missing out on a trainers' title - when Desert Orchid's victory resulted in David Elsworth leapfrogging Gifford on the final day of the season in 1988.
Berlind originally made the proposal in response to a Robbie Bach claim that Microsoft would snatch the coveted number two position from SanDisk after the upcoming holiday season, which would require a daunting 7% improvement in market share and leapfrogging over Creative.
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