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jump

In computing, a programming instruction that causes the computer to branch to a different part of a program, rather than execute the next instruction in the program sequence. Unconditional jumps are always executed; conditional jumps are only executed if a particular condition is satisfied.



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If a company's senior manager jumps ship to the competition or a valued clerk suddenly wins the lottery, is there someone already groomed from within who can be slotted into that role?
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Strombel has got to tell somebody, so he jumps ship and ends up inside a magician's cabinet with Sondra (Johansson) a wet-behind-the-ears American journalism student.
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