Word: outruns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states of Western Europe, European steelmen do not follow the U.S. practice of cutting production to keep prices up whenever demand slips; instead, the Europeans go right on pouring-and slash prices. By 1965, according to the best current estimates. Western Europe's steel capacity is likely to outrun its consumption by as much as 18 million tons. If that happens, some U.S. steelmen glumly anticipate a transatlantic invasion of European steel salesmen with open order books-and cut-rate prices...
...sets are about the only exception, because they are necessary for government propaganda and to provide badly needed entertainment amid all the austerity. In the campaign against smugglers, twelve so far have been sentenced to death. When told by harbor police that the smugglers' hot-rod launches can outrun government boats. General Park offered advice: "When it is clear that the smuggler will outrun you, open fire and sink him. If they are caught, smugglers are going to be executed anyway. It doesn't make any difference if they are drowned at sea or shot on land...
...answer may have been supplied by one Williams supporter when he predicted before the election, "John's whole slate will probably outrun him. He just doesn't have the political personality to compete with Wallison." In fact, members of the Williams slate did outrun the presidential candidate in four out of five contests...
...concluded therefore that new problems of urbanization like housing and development ought to be chiefly the responsibility of state governments. "The problems have outrun individual local government boundaries . . . and the national government is too remote to sense and to act" on them. As in Wednesday's lecture Rockefeller kept his comments scrupulously clean of references to the Kennedy Administration, or to the President's proposed Department of Urban affairs...
...East's best runners, Laris collapsed 50 yards from the finish line in a meet last week. But Laris has been training this week and may have a good chance to outrun the varsity big three-Ed Hamlin, Mark Mullin, and Ed Meehan...