Word: surpass
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...When your back is against the wall, you have to come out swinging," he said, still wearing that quiet smile. To say that, to have the inner strength to speak in such terms, is to set an example of courage which will far surpass anything he ever did as an athlete...
What gets me about this whole thing is the hypocrisy of the anti-boring movement. America is a boring and lazy society and there's no shame in that. Doubtless the Japanese will surpass us in most things if they haven't already. So what? It just means that their culture is adaptively superior to ours. To say that Americans are slothful and boring isn't any sort of value judgement. Boring isn't a pejorative term, it's just a state of being, and there should be no stigma attached...
Back in the U.S., Beamon, who runs a youth sports program in Florida, expressed surprise. Said he: "I was thrown off by not hearing the other name -- Carl Lewis, the most logical person who would either duplicate or surpass the performance." Only a Beamon-busting jump could have overshadowed Lewis' achievements last week. At 30, an age when athletes are often limping into retirement, Lewis is still capable of setting new records, as the 100-m dash proved. After winning the race, he said, "The great thing was, the old man was able to pull...
European and, to a lesser extent, Japanese scientists have begun to surpass their American counterparts. In the U.S. the scientific community is beset by a budget squeeze and bureaucratic demands, internal squabbling, harassment by activists, embarrassing cases of fraud and failure, and the growing alienation of Congress and the public. In the last decade of the 20th century, U.S. science, once unassailable, finds itself in a virtual state of siege...
Children lead some of the most raucous lives of all. Noisy activities range from playing with cap guns to practicing with school bands to riding the school bus. Of greatest concern, however, is youngsters' devotion to amplified music. Rock concerts can surpass 110 decibels, though they are more of a threat to musicians than to audience members, who endure the punishing pounding for only an hour...