Word: exceeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wylie warned his fellow councilors in a memorandum not to let it appear to voters that "we are trying to raise even more revenue than in the past so we can spend more." He suggested a council pledge not to let next year's property tax collection exceed the present level even if the override vote passes...
...robots take over more and more of our tasks, we must be sure that we never allow the mechanical grasp to exceed our reach...
...will homeowners continue bor rowing against the equity in their dwellings while interest rates on second mortgages reach toward, and in some states exceed, 20%? It is doubtful, but econo mists and bankers are divided. Says Mil ton Hudson, a senior vice president of New York's Morgan Guaranty Trust...
...earth, the plates move no more than a few inches a year, bumping, jostling and grinding against each other with incredible force. These movements can have enormous consequences. Opposing plates often lock, so that great stresses begin to build up. When the pressures become so large that they exceed even the strength of the rock, the earth fractures, frequently along "faults" where earlier breaks have occurred. Like a wound spring suddenly uncoiling, the earth releases its stored energy in shocks that may be felt far beyond the fracture. This is an earthquake...
...Albus, head of the robotics research laboratory at the National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Md., "is now poised on the brink of a new industrial revolution that will at least equal, if not far exceed, the first Industrial Revolution in its impact on mankind...