Word: outstripped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loyal Macmillan ally, Lloyd acidly wrote the Prime Minister: "I realize the policies with which I've been associated have been unpopular. On the other hand, I believe they have been right ... I know you are well aware that the growth of public expenditure should not outstrip our resources...
...gradually became apparent, he said, that the Industrial Revolution made it possible for production to outstrip population growth, thereby nullifying the value of "you-or-me" warfare...
...trouble, of course, is not with science, but only with the use we make of science. But I am confident it is your deep hope, as it is ours, that the scientist as human will presently outstrip the scientist who is simply the builder of a more efficient tool," he said...
...Thomas's Hospital, and lately at Columbia-Presbyterian, plain oxygen has proved to be a useful ally toward this goal. Cells are more easily destroyed if they have a large supply of oxygen, but tumor cells are frequently oxygen-starved; they grow so rapidly that they outstrip their blood supply. Radiotherapists speculated that they might make up the deficiency by putting the patient in a chamber where he could breathe oxygen at a pressure four times that of the atmosphere. A high concentration of oxygen could then be carried in the bloodstream to the tumor cells...
...high cost of imported raw materials. European firms are often spurred on by labor shortages to find means of increasing production without additional manpower. Nonetheless, the net effect in both Europe and Asia is a labor saving that shows up in productivity gains that, in most cases, outstrip the U.S. rate of increase. While U.S. manufacturing productivity has risen 15% since 1953, West Germany can point to an increase of 53%, Japan 71% and France...