Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this year's $1.2 billion in government public investment would be poured into provinces outside Mexico City. The purpose of the rural new deal is to bridge the gap between the two Mexicos-the cities, where average annual income is $630, and farms, where earnings still hardly exceed...
...indefinitely. "We're going to find man flying in space for as long as a year some time in the future," he predicts. "The doom-and-gloom bit about man's inability to perform in a hostile environment has been vastly overplayed." His optimism, however, does not exceed his engineering caution. "We're doing all this within the realm of logic, precision and nature," he insists. "I don't look at my job for the romance I might get out of it. But I know that what we're doing is extremely important...
...cash bonus: $555,900) and Ford President Arjay Miller ($515,912). Salaries depend, of course, on a company's size and profitability and an executive's responsibilities. Pure pay runs much higher in the U.S. than for comparable posts elsewhere, but executives abroad enjoy perquisites that often exceed the value of their salaries...
...Your cover story on Race Driver Jim Clark [July 9] says that "in the early days, British motorists had to be preceded by men on foot crying their approach." Nonsense! Up to 1896, mechanically propelled vehicles had to be preceded by a man carrying a red flag, neither to exceed 4 m.p.h. I have seen steam rollers moving at 3 m.p.h. with a man walking in front with the flag (I am 83). On Nov. 14, 1896, the speed permitted was increased to 12 m.p.h. To celebrate, a run was organized from London to Brighton for a collection of motor...
...buying planes. Despite the added expenses of chartering, the company's average domestic passenger rate of 4.7? a mile is about 20% lower than equivalent rates in the U.S. Air Viet has operated in the black for four years without any direct government subsidy, this year expects to exceed 1964's record earnings...