Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while Kansas City awaited the Oakland A's and the champagne. Of last year's four playoff teams, including the popular Cubs, the promising Padres and the pre- eminent Tigers, only the modest Royals have endured. "It's great to be great," said Dick Howser, a manager whose achievements exceed his reputation, "but there's a joy in being competitive...
...Many are based on a crude idea of reciprocity: buy more from us or we will buy less from you. Thus a bill drafted by Democrats, but boasting strong Republican support as well, would slap a 25% penalty tariff on anything imported from countries whose sales to the U.S. exceed by 65% or more their purchases from the U.S., unless they start reducing that trade imbalance immediately. In its present form, the bill would raise prices on everything Americans buy from Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Brazil. Two bills introduced by Republican Senator John Danforth of Missouri, who still considers himself...
...estimate includes the cost of equipment, supplies, and the services of Harvard and contracted personnel used in campus repairs, as well as over $20,000 in preparations for the storm. Campus officials, who expected that preparation costs would exceed $50,000, will receive a more thorough account of expenditures from the Facilities Maintenance Office on October...
...NOTEBOOK'S NOTEBOOK: If William & Mary scores 15 points or more Saturday, it will set a school record in the series...Harvard has picked off six passes this year. At that rate, the Crimson would exceed the school record of 25 in a season by five...Last season K.C. Smith led all Crimson tacklers with 79 total tackles. This year, Captain Brent Wilkinson already has 26. If he keeps that up, he'll have 130 by season's end...Santiago needs 723 yards to become the Crimson's fifth leading rusher of all time...White needs 503 yards to become...
...haggling went on through the night last week as Japan's top finance and defense officials debated a perennially sensitive question: whether or not to exceed an informal cap on military spending that since 1976 has been held to less than l% of the country's gross national product. Finally, the ministers agreed on what the government later called an "epochal" solution. They approved a five-year, $76 billion defense spending plan that would involve annual average outlays...