SHANGHAI Back in 1958, the year of China s ill fated Great Leap Forward, Chairman Mao had big plans for the steel industry.

Novelty a leap of creativity

So it s a leap of imagination.

But then Geithner takes a leap.

How many days comprise a leap year?

Steve Truglia A leap from the edge of space

China s Great Leap Backward

Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

Like religion, the nation state myth requires a leap of faith.

The ECB s Leap into the Unknown

Another Great Leap Forward for Development

The warrant was no leap forward.

All of these entities would be taking a substantial leap of faith.

Peter Diamandis on our next giant leap

The Arab Spring s Backward Leap for Women

There are four intercalary days in a regular year, and five in a leap year.

Mao unveiled the Great Leap Forward at a meeting in January 1958 in Nanjing.

It is also a leap year starting on Saturday, in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.

The Declaration of Commitment adopted in 2001 was a brave and great leap forward.

What might look like a small step for mankind is certainly a giant leap for Europe.

For by you, I run against a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.

And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp he shall leap from Bashan.

The authors then make a leap of faith to derive conclusions about the economy as a whole.

(Mike Davis, Great Leap ForwardThe largest famine of the 20th century, and almost certainly of all time, was the 1958 61 Great Leap Forward famine in China.

Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

Deah Barakat was a tall guy with a big smile and big ideas.

Like the Julian calendar, the sixth epagomenal day which in essence is a leap day is added every four years without exception on 29 August of the Julian calendar, six months before the Julian leap day.

The Great Leap Forward reversed the downward trend in mortality that had occurred since 1950, though even during the Leap, mortality may not have reached pre 1949 levels.

In his dramatic leap into the future, Sadat taught Arab leaders the realities of a changing world.

What a big dog!

We make a decision it's that big, even though it's not that big.

Those who warn that the current government s collapse will be a risky leap into the unknown are correct.

If we mind the gap, we can make the leap to a better, more inclusive form of globalization.

TBILISI Look before you leap is as sound a principle in foreign policy as it is in life.

The campaign began at a time when the Chinese economy was recovering from the Great Leap Forward campaign.

From these they calculate excess deaths above a death rate interpolated between pre and post Leap death rates.

The knight is the only piece that can leap over other pieces.

Impact on economy During the Great Leap, the Chinese economy initially grew.

The engine was officially launched as LEAP X on 13 July 2008.

She also appeared in the Quantum Leap episode The Play's The Thing .

Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.

And we must make that conceptual leap in our planning and actions.

The agricultural policies of the Great Leap Forward and the associated famine continued until January 1961, when, at the Ninth Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee, the restoration of agricultural production through a reversal of the Great Leap policies was started.

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