Word: exceeded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bulk of the sum came from bonuses, which HMC's fund managers receive if they exceed the company's benchmarks-its internal investing standards-over a three-year period on the different areas they manage...
...wide-ranging and costly ($47 million) investigation. It resulted in seven guilty pleas and four convictions (two were overturned, and George Bush pardoned six of the targets). There has been grumbling about various probes since Walsh's, but only Starr's ever expanding Whitewater investigation, which is likely to exceed the cost of Walsh's inquiry, has been so castigated...
...Gilbert and Sullivan Players have been doing their corny but enjoyable thing for so long that one expects a solid show. The cast of The Gondoliers has shown that with a little more "oomph," they can not only meet all those expectations but also exceed them...
...more fat spontaneously appeared within the body after the food were ingested, then the calories from the fat in the food would exceed the total calories in the food, and the percentage would be accurate. The same also would be true if if our bodies were able to metabolize fat with anti-fat, which upon encountering real fat annihilates it in a burst of high-energy gamma rays. This would enable the release of large amounts of energy from small amounts of fat--the 8.26 grams of fat in Grilled Tex-Mex Vegetables would, by Einstein's energy-mass equivalence...
...company of the century is General Electric, which began the century as an industrial company with sales of less than $16 million and, catching almost every wave, evolved into a diversified manufacturing and finance colossus with strong positions in media and information. This year's sales are expected to exceed $100 billion, and with market capitalization of $302 billion, the company is in a close race with Microsoft for the title of Most Valuable. GE chairman Jack Welch isn't the innovator that GE's founder Thomas A. Edison was, but this son of a railroad conductor and lifelong...