Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Acting at a time of economic distress and fiscal difficulty, the legislature could hardly have ignored the financial losses which may result from divestiture. Indeed, the state treasurer quietly opposed the bill because he considered the potential losses--which he predicted could exceed $12 million--unjustified. But the legislators rightly placed a greater value on the withdrawal of support from South Africa's system of racial oppression that will be accomplished by the bill. Unfortunately the University, blessed with rare economic security, finds itself unable to take a similarly courageous moral stand...
...cause, with good intention, as a last resort, and waged with limited means. The two criteria for conduct of a just war that are especially pertinent to today's nuclear debate are "discrimination" (no direct killing of innocent civilians) and "proportion" (a war's devastation must not exceed the evil it seeks to overcome). Nuclear pacifists argue that these two factors necessarily rule out atomic warfare...
...Central Park--but on television that same day. Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 flippantly dismissed the historical event and said the administration's plan for an arms buildup would not be changed. And almost exactly two months after the New York demonstration, Pentagon officials said they plan to exceed an already unprecedented military spending schedule by requesting $247 billion from Congress for defense in fiscal year...
...Republican predecessors. Reagan and James Watt, his Interior Secretary, have tried to undo much of the progress made in environmental quality dating from Abraham Lincoln to Richard Nixon. It is grievously damaging. The budget deficits that Reagan will accumulate in four years, while claiming to be a fiscal conservative, exceed the total deficits of all the peacetime years
...best possible increase in sales." Business Analyst R. Joseph Fuchs of Kidder, Peabody and Co. Inc. rates USA Today's chances as "better than even." John Morton of Lynch, Jones and Ryan notes that Gannett is at worst taking a gamble in which potential rewards greatly exceed risks: "This is not an enormous investment, it is like buying a moderate-size newspaper, and it promises an enormous return...