Word: surpassed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leadership fears that any revival of Jewist-cultural or religious activities may infect the other nationalities living in the Soviet Union with a renewed sense of national (as opposed to Soviet) identity. This consideration grows more important with time, since the total population of minority nationalities is about to surpass that of the ethnic Russians, who dominate the central government. Whatever the motivation, the fact remains that current Soviet policy has largely suppressed and threatens to eliminate the religious, linguistic and cultural heritage of its Jewish citizens--everything, in effect, except the label in their passports...
...First Family leads the sort of life that no multimillionaire could afford and no monarch can surpass. Who but an American President has a personal fleet of plush turbojet helicopters at his disposal and available on a few minutes' notice? Where reigns the king or dictator with a pool of jet aircraft of various sizes and speeds to accommodate his official needs or personal whims...
...March (list price: $37.95). Richard Simon, an analyst with Wall Street's Goldman, Sachs & Co., expects Atari to sell a phenomenal 9 million units this year and to take in some $200 million in the process. He predicts that Atari's Pac-Man earnings will ultimately surpass 20th Century-Fox's profits from Star Wars, the bestselling film ever made...
...least 50%; memory has its tricks of perspective; 2) what might be called the Walt Whitman Rule: exuberant democratic energy usually finds its own standards and creates its own excellence, even though the keepers of the old standards may not like the new. A Big Mac may sometimes surpass the concoctions of Julia Child...
...Crimson thinclads are going to have to do a lot more merely place, however, if they are to surpass talent-laden Princeton and grab the Ivy League laurels. Last weekend the Grange and Black squad narrowly defeated Harvard in the tri-meet with Yale in New Heven to take a tenuous hold on Ivy supremacy, third- and fourth-place finishes, the league title will be convincingly theirs...