Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...system's selection will eventually exceed 15,000 songs, culled from the top hits of the past 30 years. So far, Capitol and Warner Bros. are among the leading record companies that have agreed to let their songs be distributed by the system. The firms, which will receive royalties whenever one of their songs is selected, hope to recoup some of the estimated $1.5 billion in sales that the record industry loses annually to home taping...
...deficit increased fivefold. It certainly did not help that Japan kept its markets glaringly closed to some products and more subtly to others. Further, I do not think you would find that any business competing against the Japanese was experiencing stagnation. We all know we have to match or exceed their technology, innovation and quality to hold our position in the marketplace...
...this sense, history--drastically and brutally speeded up by the American impact--may pass the Vietcong by. Societies are susceptible to revolution only at particular stages in their development. At the moment, the rates of urbanization and of modernization in the secure rural areas exceed the rate of increase of Vietcong strength...
...Raul Alfonsin, convinced rebel army officers to abort a plan to launch an offensive against the nations's still fragile democracy. For four days, the officers had plotted in a military compound outside the capital. Alfonsin proved that even in blood-soaked Latin America, the power of suasion can exceed the power of arms. The peaceful victory offers others in a war-torn world an eloquent lesson...
Specifically, ICL would permit a cumulative limit of $50,000 on graduate and undergraduate loans, to be paid back at interest levels three percent higher that the Treasury rate. Repayment would begin six months after a student leaves school with payments not to exceed 15 percent of income. There would be no time limit on the length of repayment, but, on the other hand, no portion of the loan would be forgiven, regardless of the student's financial status...