Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only 14 summits, all of them in the crescent of mountains that runs from northern Pakistan southeast along the Himalayan chain to Sikkim, exceed this mysterious boundary between life and death. To climbers they are known as the eight-thousanders. And many of them, including Mount Everest, were conquered by mountaineers who fudged a little: they used bottled air. No one had ever conquered all 14 -- much less without oxygen -- until last week, when Reinhold Messner, 42, a brash, blond-bearded native of Italy's South Tirol, stood triumphantly atop Lhotse, the world's fourth highest mountain. Having conquered...
With the aid of all these ploys, the major comic publishers now anticipate profits that exceed those of the medium's golden age, the '40s. Income last year reached $75 million, and this year is expected to be significantly better. Money, in short, to make any superhero leap tall buildings for joy at a single bound...
...subjecting all urine that shows signs of drug use to further, more sophisticated examination. But those retests can cost $100 each, and many employers may not want to pay the price. The cost of administering such tests to even a sampling of 10% of the total labor force would exceed $1 billion. Nonetheless, testing seems certain to continue its explosive growth for months and perhaps years to come, if only because so many people are stumped for any other way to check drug abuse...
...some 123 B-52s have been equipped with cruise missiles capable of hitting the Soviet Union in a nuclear strike. When the Air Force finishes sticking a pod of the missiles on the 131st bomber, the U.S. will exceed the limits imposed by the 1979 SALT II treaty. Some Air Force officials had initially suggested that the limit would be passed about mid-November, before the two superpower leaders might have picked up where they left off at last year's Geneva summit...
...Pentagon continued plans to equip B-52 bombers with cruise missiles at a pace that would break the unratified SALT II treaty limits by mid-November. The defense budget passed by the House of Representatives, however, would cut off money for any weapons that would cause the U.S. to exceed SALT II weapons levels. The House also demanded a halt to any nuclear testing above the level of a single kiloton...