Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House also raised the so-called target prices for grains and cotton, which require the Government to subsidize farmers if market prices drop below the targets. This year, with the target for wheat at $3.81 per bu., payments for that crop may exceed $400 million. The House bill would raise the wheat target...
...that he is in office, Papandreou is beginning to realize that his ambitions may exceed Greece's means. "We are not miracle workers," he cautioned at the end of his campaign. Still, Greeks expressed high expectations when they said neh (yes) to Papandreou. To avoid disappointing his voters, the new Prime Minister will have to practice a pragmatism that does not embroil Greece in international quarrels that it clearly cannot afford...
Total sales of the People parody are expected to exceed 750,000 copies before the sale of the magazine ends on December 15, David O. Cox, an account executive at Select Magazines, the parody's national distributor, said yesterday...
Mary Bessington, who retired as master of Cambridge's Fletcher School last year and is making her first run for the school committee, agreed that it was important for the city to press for the right to exceed the spending limits imposed by Prop...
...broad goal of reduced spending and pushed the details--bloated weapons systems towering over crippled social programs--as far out of the spotlight as possible. The ploy worked; an overall spending ceiling was set with a so-called "reconciliation" budget package, and startled appropriations czars were told not to exceed the general limit in their 13 specific areas. Combining this victory with his tax cut, Reagan bragged he had finally saved the nation from the cancer of New Dealism and promptly took off for his month-long summer vacation, presumably to get the government off his back for a while...