Another Great Leap Forward for Development

This is the Great Leap Forward, when China fell down.

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

Not only is it a technological leap forward, but I really do believe it's a bit of a cultural leap forward.

An early decision will be a great leap forward in our common effort to make progress on the comprehensive United Nations reform agenda.

And then they would remember the first part of last century, which was really bad, and we could go by this so called Great Leap Forward.

This is a tremendous leap forward in transparency and accountability of aid.

China s rapid growth has rescued multitudes from abject poverty, and quasi Corporatist arrangements are clearly better than Mao s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. But that is faint praise.

That constitutes an important leap forward in supporting the implementation of the Hyogo Framework.

So digital mammography has been a giant leap forward for manufacturers of digital mammography equipment, but it's been a very small step forward for womankind.

NEW YORK China s economy is now taking its next great leap forward parts of its manufacturing sector are now moving up the value added chain and out of the country. The China challenge is now a global one.

This portrait I'm not usually known for portraits, but I couldn't resist this one, where she's been through Mao, and she's been through the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution, and now she's sitting on her porch with this e waste beside her. It's quite something.

And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great

And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great

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

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

DH Leap over my shoulder.

Novelty a leap of creativity

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

Progress with regard to gender issues differed greatly from institution to institution, and the time had come to make a significant leap forward in mainstreaming the gender perspective in many United Nations bodies.

By effectively enforcing property rights and implementing national policy, the Chinese Communist Party became the institutional mechanism that bridged the divide between the elites (the Party) and the masses. But, in 1958 1961, excessive central planning to support the Great Leap Forward (Mao Zedong s intensive campaign to industrialize and collectivize China s economy) generated systemic fragility.

So it s a leap of imagination.

The ECB s Leap into the Unknown

Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy for, behold, your reward is great in heaven for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy for, behold, your reward is great in heaven for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

That model is, to some extent, a policy induced construct, the result of a deep rooted bias toward construction and manufacturing as the leading drivers of economic development. This predilection harkens back to the Great Leap Forward of the 1950s, when scrap metal was melted to meet wildly optimistic steel production targets, thereby advancing Mao s dream of rapid industrialization.

Peter Diamandis on our next giant leap

The Arab Spring s Backward Leap for Women

And I do believe that business will move the great mass of humanity forward.

You will find a job. Take the leap.

You will find a job. Take the leap.

This would imply a massive leap in migration.

So this is what I call Lovelace's Leap.

It is also the sixtieth anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the aftershock of the cataclysm of the atomic bomb, a terrifying truth was revealed that with every technological leap forward, greater and more terrible dangers arise.

In raw numbers, the one child policy s human toll has been even greater than that of Mao s Great Leap Forward, which caused a famine that killed around 36 million people from 1959 to 1961. And it exceeded that of the Cultural Revolution, in which large scale political violence likely caused as many as another ten million deaths from 1966 to 1976.

Similarly, China s Communist Revolution began with a decade of attacks on the middle and professional classes and a reshaping of the countryside, culminating in the Great Leap Forward of 1958 59. But that disastrous campaign weakened Mao s influence by the early 1960 s he seemed to be relegated to the sidelines while pragmatists like Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping grew stronger.

Steve Truglia A leap from the edge of space

Bring together your devices and come forward in ranks the winner will, certainly, have great happiness .

Bring together your devices and come forward in ranks the winner will, certainly, have great happiness .

Zhang Yuning's stay abroad is a real one. It can be said that his achievement of jumping level from the national youth to the national Olympics is by no means accidental, and his leap forward growth is still surprising.

You sort of leap up very quickly in your youth.

In today s fast paced world, it takes only a single technological improvement, price advantage, or great viral advertising campaign for a competitor to leap ahead. New players can materialize seemingly out of nowhere.

Let's forge ahead with the spirit of heroes and martyrs, and move forward to the great goal!

Their respective leaderships have taken bold decisions, often at great political cost, to move the process forward.