Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hopes to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute, the FBI'S favorite tool against organized crime, to confiscate drug-trade profits. One way of locating these gains is through stricter enforcement of the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act, which requires banks to disclose deposits that exceed...
What the tiny (pop. 1.4 million) Persian Gulf emirate of Kuwait loses in size to Saudi Arabia, it more than makes up for in aggressive money management. In contrast to the Saudis, with their conservative investment policies, the Kuwaitis have long used their surplus oil revenues, which now exceed an estimated $65 billion, to wheel and deal in real estate and in the stocks and bonds of blue-chip Western companies...
...they finally fight. They say this will be the biggest fight ever. Maybe $10 million will go to each participant. The total profit should exceed $30 million. The whole world will watch, and the bets will total half...
...moisture. We frequently applied salt water to our parched lips with the hope to quell the fever that raged there but that only served to increase our thirst so much that some were compelled to seek relief in their own urine. Our sufferings during these hot days almost exceed belief. Some of the men were induced to hang themselves over the side of the boat into the sea to cool their bodies and it was with the utmost difficulty that they were enabled to haul themselves again into the boat...
...There was a question as to whether the cost of the renovation would exceed the trigger level" for handicapped modifications, Tucker stated, adding that "complying with handicapped regulations is part of any renovation...