Word: surpass
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...tests, only math, physics and chemistry easily lend themselves to cross-cultural comparison, and U.S. college-bound students are generally better prepared in these areas, according to the test evaluators, Nevertheless, the Chinese youth come out pretty well, and may even surpass U.S. students in some of the liberal arts areas of the test. Educational Testing Services in Princeton has several copies of the USOE report and "they are analyzing them carefully," Barendsen says...
Carina Campobasso '81, a member of the Harvard Hunger Action Committee (HHAC), which organized the fast, said yesterday that 2980 undergraduates have already agreed to fast. The total number fasting will surpass 50 per cent of the student body by tonight, she added...
...competition to surpass the male coworker has left few women with a choice in their personal and private lives, she said. "It isn't right if women are choosing or thinking not to have children for all the wrong reasons," she added...
...nation's number three auto maker announced last week that its losses would surpass even the figure of $600 to $700 million it had announced earlier, putting Chrysler in striking distance of a new record for the largest loss in corporate history. Plagued with incompetent managers for the past decade, Chrysler is now close to defaulting on its loans, no small problem--the tenth largest corporate mogul in America is over half a billion dollars in debt. And its repeated boostings of its loss estimates have not reassured the lending institutions, which seem to have written Chrysler...
...February after barely more than a month in office. Bakhtiar, who is on the regime's wanted list of former officials charged with high crimes, accused Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini of lacking "a master idea" for Iran and predicted that the waste and corruption under the Islamic government "will surpass" anything seen in 25 years under the Shah. His aides were beginning to transmit cassette tapes back home to spread his message, as Khomeini had done so successfully. But the chances of Bakhtiar's returning to Iran, much less returning to power, seemed very slim. His following is almost...