Word: surpassed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Already, as Saudis assume complete ownership of their oil wealth, new towns are being planned, wells dug, and air conditioning added to overcome summer heat that regularly reaches 120°. Hospitals and schools are being built, roads extended, and communications facilities improved. Saudi Arabia, which by autumn 1975 will surpass West Germany as the world's leading holder of foreign currency reserves, intends to spend huge amounts of money within five years to balance oil production with such industrial activities as petrochemical production, steelmaking, shipbuilding and fertilizer manufacture. Not surprisingly, the plans have whetted great interest abroad. Moslems...
...have been attacked by the newspaper to respond to those attacks. While it is not ideal--perpetuating to some extent A.J. Liebling's idea that "freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one" (or can afford to buy space in one) it seems to surpass whatever is second-best...
...should have burned it. It's an interesting biography, but only insofar as Rochester is an intriguing character; Greene's style and his organizing abilities aren't capable of sustaining a work that brings together Rochester's life and his poetry. The new biography certainly doesn't surpass V. Pinto s work, Enthusiast...
While the Crimson will be looking to keep its Ivy slate clean in its quest for a championship. Walt Snickenberger will be looking to move into third place on the Tiger career rushing list. The halfback needs just 42 yards to surpass the mark of 1896 yards set by the great Cosmo lacavazzi, who must be remembered by all true football fans. Iacavazzi played for the Tigers from...
...lapsed Catholic and an early starter. The day after she graduated from high school in Los Angeles, where her father worked for a utility company, the young actress won her first TV assignment. She was unforgettable as Happy Hotppint, a sexless elf in appliance commercials. "Nothing can surpass the thrill when I saw myself on television," she remembers. "In fact, I was so excited I almost forgot about the pain. I was supposed to be a flat-chested neuter elf. Well, I wasn't flat-chested, and it was painful...