Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long hair, are simple Bavarian villagers. The script is amateurishly florid. Yet the once-a-decade production of the Passion Play at Oberammergau, Germany, has long been a byword for Roman Catholic piety−and a major international tourist attraction. Ticket demands for this season's 98 performances exceed the supply by about 1,000,000. The 500,-000 or so visitors who will throng the area are expected to spend more than $10 million−enough to keep Oberammergau going through the next nine lean years when the population shrinks to its normal 5,000, the beards...
...comparable to those in civilian life would, in fact, attract somewhat more well-to-individuals who have less trouble now getting job in the civilian market. The commission estimated that the percentage of blacks in an all-volunteer army, although greater than their percentage of the population, would scarcely exceed their membership in a military retaining the draft...
...Johsnon, despite his reputation as a prodigious moralist, majestically ordering life with indefatigable lucidity through the irresistible ebb and flow of his periodic prose, as profoundly melancholy man with a resilient and charitable sense of humor much like Chekhov's. Johnson believed that the miseries of disappointment would always exceed the joys of happiness; that human self-confidence is pathetically tenuous; that man loses himself in schemes of felicity; that the artifices of self-deceit are the primary disease of the human imagination; that fancy is volatile and tyrannical, happiness elusive if not unobtainable. His counsel is to live with...
...company that is so complicated that some of his own bankers admit they do not grasp it. For several weeks, Ling has also been trying to tell his story to a congressional committee that is investigating conglomerate mergers. When Representative Emanuel Celler charged that LTV's debts exceed its salable assets by $171 million, Ling replied that the consolidated balance sheet was "not really meaningful." He reasoned that LTV's interests in some subsidiaries, including Braniff International Airlines and Okonite, a wire and cable maker, were undervalued because control of a company normally commands a premium over...
...that match. Penn's Hugh Curry out-lasted Crimson captain John Levin at the top spot 2-6, 6-2, 6-4-the only individual contest to exceed straight sets. Curry is back again this spring, and although his progress has been interrupted by a pulled hamstring muscle, he could give Harvard's Bill Washauer the toughest battle the Crimson junior has had alf spring...