Word: surpass
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...republic ``in defiance of the will of the majority.'' For now, any referendum in the North would keep Ulster a part of Britain because Protestants make up about 60% of the population. But demographics are changing, and sometime within perhaps the next 30 years, Catholics could match or surpass Protestants number. The prospect may impel Unionists to consider the more flexible tactics the framework offers...
Epps calls for a return to those glory days in the Commons' new "laid-back" coffee house. Right on, dude. But there's more. On weekends the Commons will stack up those lunch tables and bring back disco to Harvard. We're told dancing in the Commons will surpass those silly House boogies that you don't go to anyway...
More than 300 paintings were discovered late last year in a cave near the town of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in southern France, the French government has revealed. Experts say the 20,000-year-old gallery may surpass the famous grottoes at Lascaux, France, and Altamira, Spain. The cavern was said to be perfectly intact, with animal bones, flint knives and even footprints preserved on the floor...
...fact, according to a survey by Ohio's University of Akron, Evangelicals now surpass even Roman Catholics as the largest sector of active churchgoers, though Catholicism has a vast official membership that counts all baptized infants. The Catholic Church remains powerful, but its esprit is being sapped by theological discord, not to mention declines in attendance at Mass, in parochial-school enrollment and in women's religious orders. The priesthood is attracting fewer and fewer new recruits, so that by the 21st century, many church functions will most likely be performed by laymen--and women. Meanwhile, Evangelicals are making inroads...
...Harvard football season started off very promising, but it fizzled down the stretch. Sophomore running back Eion Hu, however, was simply unstoppable throughout the campaign. Hu, who win the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award, racked up 1011 yards--the second Crimson player ever to surpass the 1000-yard mark for a season...