Word: exceeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victors will gleefully set about tying together loose ends, looking ahead to more work of an official sort, or savoring the simple satisfaction of a job well done. And it is likely that the sum of individual estimations of importance will exceed the whole. There are those who shunned the limelight and gave advice and who will now wait patiently to receive the call in January for the high honor of public service. Others wrote the speeches and heard them delivered countless times, experiencing countless vicarious pleasures with each repeated utterance. Still others commanded the organizations in each important state...
Ford is held responsible for what happens now to China and southern Africa. Did the Soviet Union detonate, in underground tests, four nuclear weapons that exceed the agreed-upon 150-kilo-ton limit? Blame Ford, even though the U.S. cannot properly monitor such tests until the weapons-testing treaties are ratified by the Senate...
...South Africa's nine homelands, or tribal reserves assigned to blacks, the Transkei will thus remain a stepchild of the white-supremacy government of Pretoria. Though its gross national product ($120 million) and per capita income ($130) exceed those of a dozen independent African states, the figures are misleading. Three-quarters of the Transkei's annual operating budget is contributed by South Africa, and 70% of its national income consists of remittances from members of the Xhosa tribe who work "abroad"-in the mines, factories and farms of white South Africa -as migrant laborers. Admits a black civil...
During a few hours, 680 people were killed and $400 million worth of what is abstractly known as "property damage" occurred. The statistics, of course, are nothing compared with what men at war easily accomplish. But the hurricane's figures of destruction exceed those of other legendary American disasters: the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 (480 dead, $350 million damage) and the Chicago fire of 1871 (200 dead, $200 million damage...
...shoe and handbag manufacturers, the American alligator seemed headed for extinction when it was placed on the federal endangered-species list a decade ago. Since then, largely protected from humans, the reptiles are making a comeback with a vengeance. Their numbers, estimated at only 52,000 in 1970, now exceed 600,000. Alligators have invaded populated areas, leading to worries that they may attack humans. "It's people, not alligators, that are becoming an endangered species in some Louisiana parishes," says a wildlife official. His fears seem well founded. Golfers at New Orleans Bayou Barriere Golf Club have become...