Word: exceed
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...done most recently to promote European unity. The threats have begun to weigh on some Congressmen, who realize that U.S. exports produce more income than the auto or home-building industry. The nation's exports this year are running at a $42 billion rate and are likely to exceed imports by $3 billion. But the new worries about retaliation are probably too late. Mills has been concerned lately about soothing protectionists' fears that his heart is not really in the trade bill, which now informally bears his name. In a recent speech he proclaimed that "Congress...
Peterson concedes that already many parents and students cannot come up with what Harvard expects. Last year the University loaned students more than $900,000 of Harvard and Federal money to make up the difference. Already many students are forced to exceed Harvard's attempted goal of not more than $4000 of accumulated debt each during their undergraduate careers...
...would signal an impasse so acute that the workers would probably stay out until February. But last week the company and the union went into what they called "intensive" bargaining and announced a news blackout?a traditional hint that rapid progress is being made. Any settlement is bound to exceed General Motors' final pre-strike offer of a 9.8% increase for the first year of a three-year contract, and will be inflationary. It will also set a target for other unions to match or exceed. Next year the steel industry will open wage talks, and a strike is widely...
There was no other rational explanation for Trudeau's surprise move. The FLQ was known to be merely a tiny fringe of terrorists whose numbers probably did not exceed 150. Not only that: they were incapable of launching any sort of effective mass action by themselves because they worked through small, completely separate cells. The Liberation cell had kidnapped Cross, the Chernier cell was holding Laporte. There was every indication that the two groups had acted independently of each other, and there was no reason to believe that larger assaults would follow...
Students with borderline draft numbers below 195 will be aided by Tarr's order. They may retain their student status for this year. If, next year, their numbers exceed the national ceiling, they can change to 1-A and so move into the second priority at the end of the year...