Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether the ship would continue to exceed expectations would not be known until later in the day, however, when the cameras on the lander were at last brought online. Before that could happen, the airbags had to deflate completely, and actuator motors, powerful enough to pull a small boulder, had to draw them under the ship. Then Pathfinder itself had to open up, exposing the Sojourner rover inside and sending back the first black-and-white pictures...
...that Earth and Mars dance around the sun brings them close enough to make interplanetary travel practical. NASA plans to take advantage of those exploratory windows, sending at least three other lander-orbiter pairs to the Red Planet in 1998, 2001 and 2003. In 2005 the agency hopes to exceed even these ambitious plans, launching the first-ever round-trip Mars ship, one capable of landing somewhere on the surface, then flying back to Earth carrying with it a few precious handfuls of rock and soil...
Despite the potential crisis, France's economy is on target to satisfy the Maastricht criteria, including the key requirement that budget deficits not exceed 3% of the gross domestic product by the end of this year. That accomplishment would be due to the spadework of Chirac and Juppe, who have already done much of the hard work of belt tightening, downsizing and preparing to privatize unprofitable state industries. But their efforts to tackle more structural reforms like deregulation, labor- market flexibility and trimming back the welfare state have met with stubborn public resistance...
...tasks exceed those of provosts at most universities, where the position is mainly academic, and after Rudenstine returned from his leave of absence in the fall of 1994, Carnesale picked up a number of other duties, particularly fundraising...
...gross domestic product can safely grow without overheating. TIME's Board of Economists were divided when they met last week with the magazine's editors; Morgan Stanley's Stephen Roach put the figure at 2 to 2.5 percent annually, while Edward Yardeni of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell thinks growth can exceed 4 percent...