Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...labor market because of a lack of prospects -- up 12% from last year and 14% from 1989. When the Labor Department first started tracking the group in 1967, it found about 500,000 work-force dropouts. If discouraged workers were factored into the statistics, the unemployment rate would exceed...
...faces about a dozen lawsuits filed by investors who charge they either overpaid for securities because of artificially inflated prices or were paid less interest income because of deflated yields. In anticipation of financial damages arising out of litigation, the firm is setting aside reserves that almost certainly will exceed its profits, which have totaled $451 million so far this year. To head off a liquidity crisis, the investment house triggered its emergency financing plan, which calls for a shift from short-term IOU's to secured loans that pay higher rates...
Salomon rigged bids to exceed the 35% trading ceiling in at least three Treasury auctions during the past nine months. In December the firm bought 35% of an $8.5 billion, four-year-note sale and also submitted a $1 billion bid that was ostensibly for a customer but was really for its own account. The combined transactions gave Salomon a 46% share of the overall deal...
...Dynamics, the YF-22 beat out the YF-23 Gray Ghost, a Northrop- McDonnell Douglas project, for the honor of succeeding the venerable F-15 Eagle, now more than 15 years old. The full cost of the new Advanced Tactical Fighter, stretched out over more than two decades, could exceed $95 billion in today's dollars -- $32 billion more than the contract for the B-2 Stealth bomber, the most expensive plane in Pentagon history...
...reaction from the book's subjects has been just as hot. Nancy Reagan has thus far refused any comment, though friends described her as "profoundly upset" at Kelley's attack. Ronald Reagan put out a statement seething with outrage: "The flagrant and absurd falsehoods . . . clearly exceed the bounds of decency." A phalanx of Reagan friends and former advisers lashed out at the book, both in whole and in parts. Sheila Tate, Nancy Reagan's former press secretary, charged that there are 20 factual errors in the passages involving her alone. She described the purported Nancy Reagan-Frank Sinatra tryst...