Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spring, but also by the conversion of recalcitrant farmers. They seem to be at last responding to the initiatives outlined in Brezhnev's controversial "Food Program," under which farmers throughout the Soviet Union have begun to form "contract brigades" that reward members with cash or produce whenever crops exceed a predetermined goal. Says a U.S. expert: "By the inefficient standards of Soviet agriculture, the contract system appears to be a step forward...
...control the practice than those who use liquor for unknown reasons. Vaillant claims that a serious drinker does not proceed automatically down the path to alcoholism and, indeed, may be able to lead a remarkably stable and happy life. The study shows that moderate drinkers (who do not exceed an average of four drinks per day) often turn out to be better adjusted socially than total abstainers...
According to Waldemar Swirgon, a Communist Party youth worker recently promoted to the Party Secretariat, Oasis has been attempting to set up programs that exceed its role as a religious organization...
...least two purposes--clinical demonstrations to first-year medical students ('Dog Lab') and in experimentation. Unfortunately both sets of activities cause animals to suffer. Yet no researcher using the requisitioned dogs has explained why the supposed benefits of using these dogs in clinical demonstrations or in experiments exceed the suffering caused...
Officials believe these tactics have emphasized Harvard's needs so strongly that many alumni have reached deeply into their pockets for "stretch gifts" that far exceed their past trend of giving to Harvard. According to Glimp, the average donor to the Campaign has pledged 110 times the level of his normal annual gift in the past...