Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's vision limited to the U.S. In yet another message, Johnson revealed that the U.S. was sending 2,000,000 tons of grain to drought-stricken India, asked Congress to approve an additional allocation of grain "not to exceed 3,000,000 tons" and with the proviso that "it is appropriately matched by other countries." Though that carefully limited proposal caused some consternation in New Delhi, the President made eloquently clear the U.S.'s commitment to a "continuing world campaign against hunger...
...duties, but will now be able to relinquish the chair. Since he took charge 22 months ago, Grand has pulled Olin Mathieson's disparate operations together into five groups, expanded its operations in 70 countries. At the time he assumed power, he forecast that the corporation would exceed $1 billion in annual sales by 1967; last week Olin Mathieson reported a 19% gain in sales, to $1.1 billion...
...longer insist that applicants must be affluent and childless. In Texas, families with incomes as low as $3,000 have been allowed to take children, and Los Angeles County has placed some with families on relief. The old thumb rule that the parents' combined ages could not exceed 80 is largely gone. California and several other states have permitted a few unmarried women to adopt children...
...Writing in the current Foreign Affairs, former Presidential Adviser McGeorge Bundy, now president of the Ford Foundation, speculates that the Communists may quietly call it quits once they become convinced that U.S. power and perseverance will deny them victory. "If the Communists do decide that their present purposes exceed their capacity," says Bundy, "may they not prefer a private decision to a public admission...
...money and inflating prices-the cost of living jumped last month by another four-tenths of 1%, is 141% above the 1957-59 average. But they are still basically bullish. Reason: most of the thousands of people whom Katona surveys expect wage hikes in 1967 to equal or even exceed the raises that they...