Word: exceeded
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...Dole is likely to exceed the 996 delegates he needs to become the Republican presidential nominee today as voters in four key Midwest states go to the polls. At stake today are 219 delegates from Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Illinois and an additional 10 delegates to be picked by GOP leaders in Illinois. Dole is a prohibitive favorite to sweep the field everywhere except Michigan, and with 791 delegates already, he could secure more than 1,000 delegates by tonight. With the nomination for the most part secured, Dole is already back "at work" in Washington. Today he turned...
...Simpson is ignoring evidence that legal immigrants are actually an asset to the economy," he added, citing the Urban Institute's report that the taxes paid by legal immigrants actually exceed the value of the services they procure by $25 billion...
Tower Records, also part of a nation-wide chain, has shown profits which exceed those in corresponding months from previous years, said supervisor Amy Russell...
...with a schedule worthy of a national contender, a strong performance could allow it to exceed expectations and win its first Ivy title since...
...analysis for a fuel-pool drainage accident assumes that at most one-third of a core is in the pool, even though plants across the country routinely move full cores into pools crowded with older cores. If the NRC based its calculations on that scenario, says Lochbaum, "it would exceed the radiation-dose limits set by Congress and scare people to death. But the NRC won't do it." The NRC's Taylor told TIME that the agency analyzes dose rates at the time a plant opens--when its pool is empty. The law, he said, "does not contain...