Word: surmount
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opener yesterday, Chattin limited the Crimson to eight hits. Meanwhile, the Terriers exploded for three runs in the first inning off Harvard's Julie Fromholz. With Chattin on the mound, the lead proved too large to surmount, and the Crimson fell...
...bookings. It wasn't." Already buffeted by a surge in fuel costs after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, travel companies watched in horror as air carriers' revenue-passenger miles for February plunged 26.8% internationally and 5.5% in the U.S. By mid-March, the firms realized that to surmount travelers' reluctance, they would have to launch their own version of the "Hail Mary" campaign that led the allies to victory in Iraq...
...last week's initial taste of success by allied forces raised the possibility that the gulf war might be a short one, lasting a few weeks instead of many months. That inspired investors to surmount their crippling fears of a long, costly war that would plunge the U.S. into a near depression. Stock markets turned bullish in all parts of the world as buyers big and small poured in from the sidelines, heartened by a plunge in oil prices. Said Donald Clark, chairman of Household International, a finance and insurance firm: "I'm more optimistic today simply because we have...
...raising money is already easier than itonce was. National fundraising organizationssupporting women candidates, such as Emily's Listand the Women's Campaign Fund, have beenincreasingly able to help women surmount financialdisadvantages...
...sentence, she finds in her yard Vercueil, a foul-smelling vagrant who lives off his wits and other people's garbage. Together they forge an unexpected friendship that provides them both with the only breath of kindness in a world that has forsaken its humanity. First, however, they must surmount their differences. Mrs. Curren is determined to fight to the last, trying to stamp out South Africa's proliferating injustices; Vercueil wants only to disappear into his cardboard shack without responsibility to anyone or anything...