Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Namibia alone costs South Africa $1 billion annually, some 6% of the national budget. The continuing toll of casualties has dismayed the public, and pressure from abroad for Namibia's independence has been intense. Said a senior Western diplomat: "The disincentives for continuing the war appear to exceed the incentives for carrying...
...adoptive parents' vulnerability to fraud, she cites the case of two women from Summerville who are currently serving time for at tempting to sell the same baby to two different couples. The unfettered system can also induce young pregnant women, who are offered payments that may far exceed their medical costs, to surrender their maternal rights too readily. Eager parents are willing to pay $15,000 or more to lawyers, "finders" and young mothers. Promises one ad: LIVE LIKE A QUEEN. Says Attorney Kathleen Jennings of the Greenville solicitor's office: "Selling children should be illegal...
...disparity between Mondale's seeming financial ease and other, more impoverished, campaigns has not gone unnoticed; several officials from rival campaigns complain that Mondale's early backing from labor unions has given him an unfair advantage in the race, allowing him to exceed the limits on state campaign spending set by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). "Not only can he exploit union mail and union workers without having this spending registered with FEC," Woodward Wilson, a top McGovern staffer, says...
...exceed any existing standards, and are considered advanced state-of-the-art." Alms Triner, vice-president for public relations at Arther D. Little said this week...
...least efficient and least productive sectors. President Bok best described the brain drain in his most recent annual report, which noted that law schools "attract an unusually large proportion of the exceptionally gifted. The average college Board scores of the top 2,000 to 3,000 law student easily exceed those of their counterparts entering other graduate schools and occupations, with the possible exception of medicine. The share of all Rhodes scholars who go on to law school has approximated 40 percent in recent years, dwarfing the figures for any other occupational group...