Word: surpass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aggressive Executive Vice President Ruth Handler, 45, oversees manufacture and administration. (By family agreement, they never talk business at home.) Husband and wife aspire to make Mattel the world's biggest toymaker; this year, if their sales hit $80 million as expected, they will achieve their goal and surpass longtime industry leader Louis Marx (TIME cover...
...past sprang up near ore beds and oil pools, or near railroads and rivers, but now tend to grow better where the climate is gentle. Planemakers settled in California for the good flying weather; largely because of aerospace and the sun, California by year's end will surpass New York as the nation's biggest state in terms of population. In the South, many states are also doing well because they have wooed industry by offering tax breaks, low-wage labor, right-to-work laws. The nation's booming service industries grow with the influx of people...
...Haichu open-cut mine." Another caption: "The nationally renowned 'Flying-Pigeon' Bicycle." And again: "Chiang Yen-shin, who has been promoted from a foundry worker to an engineer, has fulfilled his production target for 69 months running while ensuring excellent quality." (Old Chiang is really smiling.) Finally, what can surpass in interest value the feature article, "The Secret of the Degeneration of Potatoes...
Well, there's just no end to it. Every time anyone thinks that Jack and Jackie Kennedy have surpassed themselves in their White House receptions, they manage to super-surpass themselves. Last week they did it again...
...denounce the movement as fraudulent, or misguided, or both. Staying one step ahead of his critics. Senior Statesman Cage is already proclaiming aleatory music passe -he prefers to think that his own brand of "indeterminacy" is the ultimate in pure chance. But he will have to go some to surpass English Composer Cornelius Cardew, 26, who in his Octet '61 for Jasper Johns* includes a vague injunction to "Do something completely different," or Argentine-born Mauricio Kagel, 30, who in his Sonant, made himself obsolete...