Word: exceedingly
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...spreading aids. Directly or indirectly, addiction to drugs, cigarettes and alcohol is thought to account for a third of all hospital admissions, a quarter of all deaths and a majority of serious crimes. In the U.S. alone the combined medical and social costs of drug abuse are believed to exceed $240 billion...
...council becomes more realistic about its limitations, it will gradually gain credibility. One day, the percentage of Harvard students voting in council elections might even exceed the national percentage...
Your story on the military's request for $415 billion worth of new planes [NATION, March 24] makes it evident that even if we gave the Pentagon an unlimited budget, the military would exceed it! HAROLD WILLENS, Senior Adviser Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities Los Angeles...
...alone covered a significant chunk of my senior-year costs. The pig sperm was gravy. If my three daughters decide to go to Penn--or Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Swarthmore, Brown, Stanford, M.I.T., Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Chicago or Johns Hopkins--the entire bill for 12 years of school will exceed $350,000. And that's assuming tuition never rises another penny...
...expose them to viewpoints that they otherwise may never have considered. For a university that takes pride in its ability to provide a setting in which students with diverse backgrounds can share their experiences, intra-section debate is an invaluable asset. But such debate cannot occur when section sizes exceed 20 students. Voices struggle to be heard over one another, and the constant commotion eventually forces teaching fellows to transform their sections into lectures or question/answer sessions...