Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gold in the high jump pushed an East German to a new world record. Gerd Wessing, 21, cleared 7 ft. 8 ¾ in. on his second attempt, breaking the old mark by a quarter inch. Another East German, Lutz Dombrowski, 21, became only the second man ever to exceed 28 ft. in the long jump, but his 28 ft. ¼ in. fell more than a foot short of the record set in 1968 by American Bob Beamon...
...soldier. Ike's expertise in foreign policy was thorough, practiced and instinctive. He dealt with men like Churchill on an equal basis. Reagan has worked as an actor and served a creditable eight years as Governor of the nation's most populous state. That experience may exceed Jimmy Carter's when he arrived in Washington, but it does not stack up well against Eisenhower...
When small problems in agriculture or industry fester into large ones, the Soviet bureaucracy revs up huge counterattacks that become economic overkill. Whenever Soviet grain harvests exceed expectations, for example, officials scour the countryside commandeering manpower and trucks from projects that they have to temporarily abandon...
...wages, unsanitary or hazardous working conditions and trade union leadership that executes management's dictates rather than representing employees. Drunkenness on the job and absenteeism were said to be chronic problems that often resulted in shoddy goods. Although workers were assigned quotas, there was little incentive to exceed them because once someone overproduced, everyone else was driven to work at the new level...
...high demand in the civilian economy. The size of each bonus is determined by a complex formula involving the person's base pay, the length of the re-enlistment and the scarcity of the skill. Bonuses can be collected only twice during a career and may not exceed $12,000, except for enlisted men in the Navy's nuclear service...