Word: exceed
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Politically, Nabokov saw himself as an old-fashioned liberal, though by current standards he was a William F. Buckley conservative. His suggestion that the portrait of a head of government "should not exceed a postage stamp in size" makes good sense in any ideology...
...face the unpleasant fact that the fund, which pays out about $21 million every month to 74,000 retirees, may be actuarially unsound. According to Daniel Shannon, who supervised asset management for a short period, long-term commitments to the union's 384,000 fund participant members may exceed assets by as much as $5 billion. To close the gap, says Shannon, employers must increase their contributions by 20%, to $37 a month, while the rank and filers will have to work 30 years instead of 20 to gain their maximum pensions...
...approve one, or neither, of these routes, and the Carter Administration has until Dec. 1 to choose one of the three. Each carries a price tag of $8 billion to $ 11 billion, but nobody doubts that by the time the job is finished-probably before 1985-it will comfortably exceed the big oil line as the costliest private building project in history...
...more liberal Congress is on the verge of passing three bills that could exceed his spending plans by $3.5 billion-and he may well veto one or more of them. Paying no heed to the President's protest that various dams, canals and irrigation projects are too costly and environmentally damaging, the House restored 17 of the 18 projects on his final hit list; the Senate is expected to restore more than half. The White House seems to be virtually itching to veto the wasteful measure when it reaches Carter's desk. Says a presidential aide: "There...
Both Massachusetts law and a contract between the City of Cambridge and Ellery Garage state that charges imposed for storage of towed-away vehicles shall not exceed $2 for any 24-hour period...