Word: surpassed
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Labor has won a number of concessions from the Nixon Administration, including pay hikes that surpass the 5.5% guideline. But if the time comes when Nixon must crack down, union members are likely to forget their differences with George Meany and close ranks behind him. There are already signs of just that. Says David Crippen, a member of the Social Services Employees of Los Angeles: "For what must be the first time in its history, this local is supporting Meany." The Battle of Bal Harbour was an opening skirmish in what promises to be a long, bitter political campaign...
...capita gross national product ($2,064) is already ahead of West Germany's ($ 1,848). Some time in the middle of this decade, according to Common Market economists and Futurologist Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute, France's total G.N.P. will surpass that of West Germany. The result would give Frenchmen the world's fourth largest economy (after the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Japan...
...young American journalist working in London, I disagree with your contention [Nov. 1] that "young Englishmen seem to surpass" their American counterparts in the ability to write vividly. No reflection on the Sunday Times staffers, but I suspect there would be more young Americans writing just as vividly if there were more American organizations as willing to spend nine months and $60,000 on one series...
...senior halfback broke Steve Owen's career rushing record on his second carry of the year, and he became the first collegiate player to surpass the 4000 yard mark in only three years...
...editors and 30 reporters, mostly in their 20s. Says former "Insight" Editor Bruce Page: "We use absolutely standard reporting practices. We talk to people, write it down, check it back. We have no new gimmicks." What they do have is the ability to write vividly-young Englishmen seem to surpass their American counterparts in this respect-and the sort of franchise that a team of hard-digging reporters needs most...