Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government has been unable either to control the money supply or control public spending, the two keystones of its monetarist policy. The budgetary deficit for fiscal 1980-81 was first forecast at $20 billion, then revised last November to $27 billion. Now government sources expect the deficit to exceed $30 billion, an increase of $7 billion over last year's deficit. To compensate, Thatcher and her Cabinet are now talking about imposing new taxes. Ironically, it is the private sector?the area of her prime concern and source of her strongest support in the last election?that is suffering...
After reviewing HDNS's financial records, College officials decided to dissolve HDNS and to ask HSA to take over on-campus newspaper delivery. The College also decided to take on the responsibility for paying off HDNS's debts, which a source estimated exceed...
...Carter administration has gradually increased US political diplomatic, economic and military involvement in support of the civilian-military coaltion government in El Salvador. This involvement is extensive and growing. The resources invested in this effort exceed those allocated to any other hemispheric crisis since...
Milne, who passed around a sample of material he said would be about the same size as the irradiated material shipped to MIT's Albany St. nuclear reactor, assured councilors that there was no danger of environemtnal contamination from the shipments, which he said would not exceed 10 or 20 curies...
...bureaucrats covered by Civil Service rules cannot exceed the salary for political appointees in Executive Level Five. Thus absurdities abound. The Joint Chiefs of Staff earn $50,112, precisely what the Deputy Joint Chiefs of Staff make and, as it happens, the same as the head of the Oklahoma City air logistics center. Such imbalances ought to increase pressure on Congress to vote raises some time this year, especially when no one is up for reelection. Even so, the freeze is not likely to be lifted, and for the same old shortsighted reason: it looks bad for Congress to increase...