Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overstating the financial advantage of not going to college. She plays games with statistics, arguing that if a high school graduate invested the equivalent of four years' college costs in a lump sum in a savings bank and went to work, his lifetime income (including compound interest) would exceed the earnings of a college graduate. The greatest fallacy in that line of reasoning is the fact that high school seniors do not have the $25,000 or $30,000 representing their college costs in a lump sum to invest. Nonetheless, Bird is correct in saying that a college education...
...business penalties for United Brands could far exceed any legal ones. At least two shareholders have already filed suit asking that the bribe money be repaid to the company by its board or by Black's estate. Publicity about the bribes could easily lead Honduras to expropriate the company's plantations, which supply about 16% of the bananas that United Brands sells...
Should Dunlop's absence exceed two years, an arrangement similar, to that allowed in Kissinger's case appears unlikely Bok said...
However, according to Bok, Dunlop "has given no indication" that his leave will exceed two years. Bok, who called Dunlop "the most qualified individual in the country for the job," said that he was "pleased" with the Senate's approval of Dunlop...
...these men participate in what has become the world's fastest-growing business?the arms trade. The contracts they sign in one day could easily exceed a lifetime of sales made by the "merchants of death" of an earlier era, immortalized in Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw's Undershaft, whose credo was "to give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them, without respect of persons or principles ... to Capitalist and Socialist, to Protestant and Catholic, to burglar and policeman, to black man white man and yellow man, to all sorts and conditions, all nationalities, faiths...