Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that did not deter Defense Secretary Dick Cheney last week from canceling the Navy's A-12 Avenger attack bomber and sending military contractors the clearest signal yet that the Reagan-era good times are over. The old buddy-buddy relationship between the Pentagon and arms makers who blithely exceed contract costs and expect taxpayers to pick up the tab has ended...
...raises the risk of lung cancer. The EPA maintains that a household level of four picocuries of radiation per liter of air is enough to produce cancer in 13 to 50 of every 1,000 people who breathe it regularly. The agency estimates that at least 8 million homes exceed this level, warranting such measures as sealing foundation cracks...
Proponents of the "wait and see" policy believe that the economic sanctions imposed on Iraq will eventually prove effective in forcing Saddam to capitulate. We doubt, however, that the costs of sanctions, as high as they are, will ever exceed the costs in Saddam's mind of withdrawing from Kuwait and surrendering his current status as the world's most feared Arab leader--a concession that would likely doom his regime, if not his life...
...develop the polio vaccine 30 years ago were quite small compared to the value derived from the virtual eradication of poliomyelitis. It has been calculated that if polio had not been prevented, the cost to the country in 1990 of caring for the millions of people with polio would exceed all the funds that have been spent by the NIH in the past 30 years. In 1955 essentially all children who developed acute leukemia died quickly with an enormous amount of suffering because of infections, because of anemia, because of bleeding tendencies. Today 70% of all children with acute leukemia...
...been a $15 million painting a year ago, but at least its price offset the fact that none of the other De Koonings in the sale -- all later or inferior works -- found buyers. Philip Guston's Summer, 1954, joined the De Kooning as one of the few paintings to exceed its high estimate -- $1.1 million, against estimates of $500,000 to $700,000. But again, nothing by Warhol sold, and Minimal art did badly across the board...