Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conference will have to patch together some kind of further compromise. Meanwhile, the budget quarrel is delaying an extension of the time during which the Government can exceed the statutory ceiling on the national debt, needed soon if the Government is to continue paying its bills. At week's end the fractious Congress voted for an extension, but only for five days...
...this decade," he writes, "the demand for oil will exceed available supply. A crisis of industrial civilization may well occur long before global supplies are exhausted or even before the day consumption overtakes production." He sees the key to the oil situation not in the supply, which he believes will last several more decades, but in the control of distribution which the "Seven Sisters" of American oil now hold...
...opposition means that six councilors instead of a straight majority of five will have to favor each addition to the budget. Four of the additions, totalling more than $200,000, passed the finance committee with six or more votes last night, indicating that the final budget is likely to exceed...
Following last year's unprecedented increase in the number of students accepting admission, Harvard admitted about 100 fewer students than last year. Therefore, despite the projected yield increase, Harvard will probably only slightly exceed its desired class size--about 1590 residents--for next year, Fitzsimmons said...
Auto industry layoffs may soon exceed 250,000, which badly hurts such auto-dependent cities as Detroit, where unemployment has already reached 24%. The current downturn is reminiscent of 1927, when Henry Ford helped push the country's economy into a slump by halting all Ford output for five months, as he switched production from the Model T to the Model A. Says United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser: "The rest of America may be having a recession. But autoworkers are having a depression...