Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when he enticed 12 stations owned by New World Communications Group to switch their affiliation to Fox. The bad blood came to a full boil a month ago, after NBC went to the FCC to accuse Fox of trying to improperly acquire six more stations and thus exceed the limit on the number a company may own. NBC also asked the commission to investigate whether Fox is violating the 25% limit on foreign ownership of a U.S. broadcast station. (Fox is owned by Murdoch's News Corp., an Australian company, but Fox claims it is effectively controlled by Murdoch himself...
...months after 21,000 American troops arrived to shove the regime of Lieut. General Raoul Cedras into exile. It is a measure of Haiti's desperation that the country's remarkable progress has been surpassed only by the magnitude of what remains to be done. Despite achievements that exceed all but the most optimistic expectations, Haiti is still bankrupt and riven by social disarray and class distrust. Even the President, who continues to sleep on a fold-up cot in his office, seems stunned by the problems. "This country is like a battered old truck that's stuck," Aristide confided...
Next year's Class of 1999 is expected to use the network in even larger numbers. Ouchark said he believes the number of network connections will exceed 3000 next year...
...Gregoire said house committees wouldn't necessarily be at a disadvantage. In fact, the amount of money now available to the houses could exceed the number of extra dollars distributed in the past. Over the last two years, $11,000 and $8,000 were given to the houses in direct stipends, he said...
...industrial hygienist from the Department of Environmental Health and Safety said that acetone emissions in the GDS do not constitute a safety threat because exposure does not exceed eight hours a day, five day a week...