Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defects resulted from her use of Ortho-Gynol jelly. Most scientists have found the product safe, and the company, which is appealing, insists it has no plans to remove its foams and gels from the market. But, says Ortho's James Murray, "if the costs of litigation begin to exceed earnings, we couldn't very well continue...
Cambridge almost never forecloses on a buildingunless the taxes owed on it exceed the property'sworth, said Philip Cyr, a city financial official.The club's debt of $135,000 to the city totalsonly a fraction of the building's $1 millionvalue...
...figure in the Administration. Matters did not begin well with a yearlong struggle for confirmation, during which he admitted to helping get Government jobs for friends who had granted him loans, some of them interest free. Today, polls show that he is the only Reagan aide whose negative ratings exceed his positive marks. Liberal fund raisers, who find it difficult to run campaigns criticizing the popular President, have discovered that political literature condemning Meese can inspire generous donations. Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, dubs the Attorney General the "James Watt of the Constitution...
...managed to lure about 4,000 Navajo away from the Hopi area, a choice made easy by the scarcity of jobs and a ban on home construction there. Basic relocation benefits have grown from $25,000 a family to $66,000. Total costs, $106 million to date, may eventually exceed $500 million...
...roughly 2 million black Africans would be quickly stripped of their livelihood. Tiny Lesotho, to take one example, would not only be flooded with 140,000 returning workers, equivalent to more than 75% of its wage-labor force, but would also be deprived of their salary remittances, which currently exceed the country's entire gross domestic product. Earlier this year South Africa showed how it could use its economic might against Lesotho, which had been harboring anti-Pretoria activists. South Africa put up an economic blockade, and within 19 days there was a military takeover...