In the meantime, one other figure leaped from the results statement – the fresh provision of £900m for payment protection insurance, taking Barclays' tally to almost £4.8bn.
The way campaigns play out is largely determined by fundamentals.So I was amused, and slightly put out, when, in the wake of the re-release of Mitt Romney's infamous 47% remarks, a number of prominent figures in the media leaped at the chance to overestimate its significance.
Nonetheless, BP's share price leaped as much as 5% after the company's announced its intention to sell.
Now a second era of globalisation has arrived, allowing other parts of the world notably Asia to catch up with Europe and North America, which had leaped so far ahead in the 19th and early 20th centuries.This is a big story to tell, and, at times, the accumulation of detail slows the book down.
From September 2005 to September 2006, home prices in Bend leaped 30.4%, the highest rate in the country, according to the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, which regulates the government-sponsored lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.Why the increase?
First came Benny Tate, however, a pastor from Rock Springs Church, who reminded the crowd that both Governor Deal and Mr Perdue are "men for life"—like John the Baptist, who would not support abortion rights because "[he] leaped in his mother's womb before [he] was born".
Nobody volunteers for the record: "She was struggling with her lifebelt, so I snatched it away, pushed her aside and leaped into the boat".
In the year ending March 31st, helped by currency gains, Sony's operating profit leaped 57% to ¥370 billion ($3.3 billion) on sales that increased 23% to nearly ¥5.7 trillion (see chart).Nuts, bolts and digitsStep one in Mr Idei's digital strategy has already played a role in those improved results: turning as many of its existing analogue products as possible into digital ones.
There's lots of fascinating stuff in here but what leaped out at me was a chart showing the likeliest months for crises to begin.The frequency with which the world goes to hell in September seems hardly random.
(With the advent of fossil-fuelled locomotion, evolution no longer crept. Sadly for marine species, it leaped).In most countries, society looks down on sea folk.
His relentless criticism of those in power, regardless of their political hue, appealed to Poles left behind as chirpy and entrepreneurial compatriots leaped ahead.
