Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AIDS is posing an economic threat in the U.S. The cost of caring for victims of the disease, many of whom are denied health insurance, is already estimated to exceed a billion dollars a year. By 1991 AIDS medical bills could total as much as $14 billion annually, according to Health Economist Anne Scitovsky of the Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Research Foundation, "and that does not begin to address the loss in productivity from the death of people in the prime of life...
...complaint is that some relief workers live in a style that contrasts vividly -- and insultingly -- with the poverty around them. In Mozambique, where about 40 Western agencies have offices, high-ranking aid workers can rent colonial villas staffed by servants and still save large chunks of salaries that may exceed $80,000 a year. That is a sum past reckoning in a country in which the average annual income is about $300. Such imported luxuries as Cuban cigars, French perfumes and Scotch whisky are available in hard-currency stores that Mozambicans seldom enter. "I often wonder who is helping whom...
With interest calculated since the church filed suit against the giant insurance company in 1975, the final damages could exceed $11 million, according to attorney Anthony E. Battelle, who represented the church...
...oppose cutting the deficit by too much, too fast, they agree that doing nothing to diminish the level of federal red ink could be equally dangerous. Massive Government borrowing soaks private savings out of the economy, leaving fewer funds available for business investment. Most ^ ominous, the national debt may exceed $2.2 trillion this year. The interest payments on that gargantuan sum already threaten to put an intolerable burden on future generations. Says Roger Noll, a professor of economics at Stanford: "What we will see happen as a result of continuing deficits is the slow, persistent erosion of the health...
...psychologically significant. After an eight-hour meeting of key officials last week, the government of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone announced that its proposed new budget will raise defense spending to 1.004% of Japan's estimated 1987 gross national product. If adopted by the Diet, the outlays would exceed for the first time the 1% ceiling on defense spending that Japan has observed for the past ten years...