Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unspectacular meet. Unable to overcome the one-two combination of Princeton's Betsy Lind, who won five events and Brown's Ellaine Palmer, who won four. Harvard finished comfortably in third place. Through diving and depth, the mainstays of the Crimson all year long. Harvard was able to exceed last year's score by over a hundred points...
...those voices, the President turned a resolutely deaf ear. He headlined one section of his message NO TIME TO RETREAT. His 1981 accomplishments in slashing taxes and civilian spending while starting a huge military buildup, Reagan boasted, "far exceed anything the skeptics and critics ever dreamed possible just one year ago." The President added: "Our task is to persevere, to stay the course . . . to weather the temporary dislocations and pressures that must inevitably accompany the restoration of national economic, fiscal and military health...
...designed to operate at lower costs. To add to the attractiveness of its proposal, Lockheed offered to build the planes for the Government at a fixed price, without reimbursement for any cost overruns. Lockheed also promised to pay penalties to the Government if maintenance costs of the planes exceed company guarantees...
...Ronald Reagan, Realist: "The budget deficit this year will exceed our earlier expectations. The recession did that. It lowered expectations and increased costs. To some extent, we are also victims of our own success...
...money-losing Post (circ. 764,000). Onerous union contracts, high overhead and the start-up costs of a misguided (and now discontinued) afternoon edition helped push the News's losses to $11 million last year. This year, according to insiders, they are expected to exceed $20 million. To turn the paper around, a buyer would have to invest $50 million in its aging physical plant and win contract concessions from its 3,800 employees. Last week, amid rumors that the News would close within a month, George McDonald, the normally tough-talking president of the Allied Printing Trades Council...