In America the annual growth rates of output per hour leapt from 2.6% to 4.4% in distribution and from 0.2% to 2.6% in finance and business services.
The 1 Meridian fire burned for 19 hours, leaping from floor to floor and burning out as combustible materials were used up.
Starting at 11 A.M. at the Manasquan Inlet in Point Pleasant Beach, the race has boats that, at 100 miles an hour, can leap 50 feet out of the water and cover 200 feet in the air before splashing back into the sea.
Short story supremo Alice Munro has made an eleventh-hour leap to become second favourite to win this year's Nobel prize for literature.
Despite the academy's secretiveness, it's not out of the question that those betting for Ngũgĩ have inside information or, in any case, solid clues: last year, as the award announcement approached, Alice Munro became the second-favorite in Ladbrokes betting, after Murakami, in what the Guardian described as an "eleventh-hour leap"; she ended up winning.
The 24-hour Leap Day event, which ran from 6 a.m.
Disneyland had to close its gates for several hours during its 24-hour Leap Day celebration when after-work crowds overwhelmed the Anaheim theme park.
At the appointed hour they leapt; but instead of soaring towards the firmament they came crashing down.
Much of this depends on your taste for hockey versus basketball, the idea of rubber pucks being flung at your face at 100 miles an hour or leaping over point guards in a single bound.
Inspired by the remarkable Porsche 956, which captured 40 international victories and became one of the most successful racecars ever, the 956CR is capable of 600 horsepower and 230 miles an hour and can leap from zero to 60 in 3.5 seconds.
I was with him just 72 hours ago, leaping around a studio in Thailand.
