Word: exceeding
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Remaining implacably nonaligned, China is happy to deal with all comers. This year it will boost its trade with the Soviet Union by 60%, yet receive $600 million in foreign investment from the U.S. Its foreign trade will exceed $40 billion, ten times as much as in 1968. To accommodate Western firms, Peking has passed new tax and patent laws. "We're talking megabucks," says a Washington official who has handled trade with China for several years. "American oil companies will be in China for the next 50 years...
...American campuses, the article ignores the plight of the Chinese working in Chinatown sweatshops. While Asians are over-represented in a number of technical fields, they are also over-represented in the garment worker occupation, as well as the restaurant worker category. It is true that Asian incomes exceed the national average, yet Asians live in Pacific, Eastern, and metropolitan areas with costs of living that far exceed the national average. When compared to the average income within their metropolitan areas, Asian incomes generally lag behind the area-wide averages. Moreover, Asians tend to be underemployed for their levels...
...should stand by my friends. . . I should have destroyed them [the tape recordings of meetings in his office] . . . If I had thought that they revealed criminal activities, I would have been out of my mind not to destroy them . . . There's no way you could apologize that. . . would exceed resigning the presidency . . . That said...
...real excitement in the industry is software for personal computers. While only $260 million worth was sold as recently as 1980, sales this year are expected to reach $1.5 billion. And by 1989 revenues could exceed $6 billion. At least 1,000 companies are making programs. Microsoft, located in Bellevue, Wash. (pop. 75,000), near Seattle, is the largest. In 1980 it sold $4 million worth of software; projected 1984 revenues are $100 million. William Gates, 28, Microsoft's chairman and cofounder, has amassed a personal fortune estimated at $100 million...
According to the city manager's report, budget figures for fiscal year 1985 exceed last year's revised estimates by almost $9 million. The increased expenditures will probably require a "slight increase" in taxes next year, including a nine cent hike in water bills, the report said...