1.   He took no credit for leaping racial barriers, and got very little.

2.   Leaping language barriers, the shaggy beast of the American West charmed and fascinated leaders and their shield bearers who gathered this weekend from Europe, Japan and Canada.

3.   The fact that the disease may have leapt the barrier once, from sheep to cattle, is cited by those who raise the alarm about eating beef.

4.   His athletics career long over, Edwin Moses is hurdling through life, leaping barriers of poverty, crime, drugs, disease and war.

5.   But if the dollar leaps those barriers, it could continue to climb, he said.