Word: exceeding
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...Leningrad regional party boss who had lost his uncontested election race for the new legislature, charged that Kremlin initiatives like the antialcoholism campaign and the program to foster cooperative businesses had been carried out with "inconsistency, haste and insufficient thought." Of perestroika, Solovyov said, the "minuses still significantly exceed the pluses." Moscow Mayor Valeri Saikin, another election loser, questioned whether democracy had not come to mean "everything is permitted...
With these words, spoken in January, Zinder formally launched a monumental effort that could rival in scope both the Manhattan Project, which created the A-bomb, and the Apollo moon-landing program -- and may exceed them in importance. The goal: to map the human genome and spell out for the world the entire message hidden in its chemical code...
Newhouse said people who do not smoke or drink often subsidize those who do. He said "external" costs paid by non-smokers or non-drinkers--including collective insurance, pensions, fires, motor vehicle accidents and financial strains on the criminal justice system--exceed the income brought in by excise taxes...
...University's tuition increases over the past two years even exceed the Higher Education Price Index, which tracks the prices of goods and services that colleges and universities purchase. According to D. Kent Halstead of the Washington-based Research Associates, which calculates the HEPI, these costs rose by nearly 5 percent last year, and will hover around 3 to 4 percent during the next several years...
...only moderate amounts of protein. Americans should meet the Recommended Daily Allowance -- 0.8 g per kg of ideal body weight for adults -- but not exceed twice that level. Since an ounce of lean ground beef has about 8 g of protein, a 120-lb. woman fulfills her entire protein requirement with a 5.6- oz. hamburger, and a 180-lb. man with an 8.4-oz. patty...