Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chiefs will have to preserve their game plan and their sanity in front of a crowd expected to exceed 8600 fans at Wisconsin's Dane County Coliseum...
Jeffrey's is a generation that viewed progress as an American birthright, only to discover its expectations vastly exceed its prospects. For the past 15 years, even as their parents grew more financially secure, young workers have faced declining real wages, rising taxes, high interest rates and prohibitive housing costs. At times, the Government seems to be conspiring against them. During the Reagan Administration, payments to the elderly have risen 35%, so that now more than a quarter of all Government spending goes to the 12% of the population who are 65 or older. Meanwhile, America's infant-mortality rate...
...contingencies (don't drink the water, peel all the fruit) and a healthy tolerance for inconvenience (no toilet paper or light bulbs). Credit cards and traveler's checks are useless; leave home without them. Bring cash but not bundles. The maximum value of goods purchased to take home cannot exceed $100, and there is little to buy. Viet Nam is a banquet primarily for the mind, richly sauteed in historical resonances. And despite those resonances, the reception is remarkably warm...
...book never gets written, not because he lacks vision ("If . . . one could take a moment of history, a week, a month, and know it fully, perfectly, turn it in one's fingers until all the lights had played upon its surfaces . . .) but because the facts and mysteries he encounters exceed his intentions. Or so he claims. When a friend suggests that history is a form of narrative fiction, Prentiss replies a little too glibly that "a taste for fiction has always seemed to me the unfailing mark of an imaginative deficiency...
Tung also claims that the Wharton School offered her a settlement, which sources claimed to exceed $10,000, if she would abandon her discrimination charges. Philadelphia's Equal Opportunity Commission is investigating those charges...