Word: exceeding
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...really vital, and which merely seem desirable. The Army's plain-spoken new Chief of Staff, General John Wickham (see following story), came close to warning that the U.S. has taken on more military responsibilities than it can handle. The U.S. "contingency needs," the general said, "probably exceed the force capabilities." In other words, with almost half of his 791,000-troop Army now overseas, Wickham, like many of his colleagues, feels logistically overcommitted...
Foreign journalists who are based outside South Africa can visit Zimbabwe, and the country's press freedoms still exceed those of most other black African nations. Nevertheless, the decision seemed to be another disappointing sign that, three years after wresting independence from white rule, black-governed Zimbabwe was slipping into the mold of so many other African states...
...greatest damage has been inflicted on U.S. industries, however: foreign imports have become alluringly cheap and American exports forbiddingly expensive. The result: record U.S. trade gaps that could exceed $60 billion this year and reach a staggering $100 billion in 1984. "Having a $100 billion trade deficit is like suicide," says Otto Eckstein, chairman of Data Resources, a Massachusetts-based economic forecasting firm. "It will mean more plant closings and more unemployment." Data Resources estimates that more than 1 million worker layoffs in the past two years were caused by the strength of the dollar...
...House version and the $849.7 billion Senate version contain more tax increases and domestic spending, and less defense, than Reagan requested in his Jan. 31 budget message. Reagan cannot veto a budget resolution. But he can veto individual appropriations measures, and he promises to do so if they substantially exceed his own spending guidelines...
...Harvard Square project poses a weight problem. With only 20-ton steel beams holding up the ceiling of the subway station beneath it. Omphalos cannot exceed 35 tons. By working back and forth from a half-size model to a hand-held quarter-size one. Hadzi hopes to accommodate the restriction. Eventually he will build a full-size model, perhaps in the Carpenter Center basement. Clearly, a concern for public safety puts constraints on Hadzi's work. But it was reassuring in the late 60s when war protestors climbed to the top of Thermopylae outside Boston City Hall...