Word: overtook
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With a record $683 million in private donations, Harvard overtook Stanford University as the most powerful fundraising machine in higher education. Two years ago Stanford had claimed the number one position from Harvard but last year finished second among all national universities with $469 million in private gifts. Columbia and Yale Universities followed with about $350 million each...
...world, DoCoMo's proprietary system was a smash, registering 120% growth in new subscribers over the half-year ending Sept. 30. DoCoMo's profits leaped tenfold in four years; for the last fiscal year, ended March 2001, it posted record earnings of $3 billion. Last year DoCoMo overtook Toyota as Japan's biggest company, measured by market capitalization. When its share price peaked last spring, DoCoMo was the 11th-largest company in the world, with enough spare cash to buy a 16% chunk of AT&T Wireless, the third-largest mobile phone company...
...team was called out five times in 48 hours, all for hoaxes. A woman phoned in a report that her computer keyboard was covered with a powdery substance. The FBI discovered that she had been eating cookies. The State Department was evacuated because somebody spilled some talcum powder. Cipro overtook Viagra as the drug of choice on Internet sites...
...headquarters in Munich, you would never know there was a downturn. First-quarter sales set records, and April sales soared 30% over last year's numbers. In North America, BMW overtook Mercedes for the first time. BMW executives have announced a plan to expand their selection to 76 models from 70. They expect to sell 200,000 units, up from 189,423, and increase their share of the luxury-car market. "I cannot recall ever having seen such a clear correlation between size and success," BMW chairman Joachim Milberg wryly told a Detroit audience. "At the moment, it seems...
Runup to the execution: A discomfited and slightly ridiculous solemnity overtook the anchors, as if they were trying to find the right face to put on things, the right tone under the circumstances (Funereal? Matter-of-fact? Huskily sympathetic? Sympathetic to whom, exactly...