Word: exceed
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Donations are running way ahead of collections during the Six-Day War in 1967. "It took us less than ten days to exceed by far the figures of the 30-day campaign for the Six-Day War," says Gerald Schwartz, a Miami fund raiser. "When word of the war came we went around much like Paul Revere, from synagogue to synagogue. By nightfall of the first day, we had over $1,000,000 in bond sales." In Chicago $20 million in bonds has been sold, or nearly four times the amount received during the 1967 war. Says Bond Chairman Harry...
...same day as the Smith appointment, American announced that its losses for the first eight months of the year had risen to a staggering $26.3 million, v. a profit of $12.4 million over the same period in 1972. Financial analysts expect the red ink for all of 1973 to exceed $30 million. The company's underlying problem is that it owns far more wide-bodied jets than it can run at a profit (TIME, July 2)-a dilemma that even Smith's wealth of experience and operating wizardry may be hard pressed to solve. Even so, the news...
...conservative reputation, Bork defines himself more precisely as "a classical liberal-someone who thinks that governmental intervention in individual affairs always has to be examined closely to make sure that the benefits of the intervention exceed what are bound to be the costs." In a series of interviews, TIME's David Beckwith sought a sense of how that general philosophy might apply to the positions the new Solicitor General will be urging the Justices of the Supreme Court to adopt...
...package represents about a 7 percent wage increase. As in all recent labor disputes; the Cost of Living Council guidelines complicated the settlement of wage boosts and fringe benefit increases. The Nixon Administration's current guidelines allow for a maximum 5.5 per cent pay hike with fringes not to exceed 0.7 per cent annually...
McDonald's patrons put it more simply. To them, a McDonald's is a clean, well-lighted place, where they will be served quickly and courteously. Customer waits rarely exceed five minutes, even at the height of the lunch-hour crush; the company is introducing computerized, diode-display order-taking machines to cut delays even further...