Word: surpassed
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Harvard's victory over the Jumbos enabled the reborn Crimson squad to surpass its victory total for the last two years combined...
...feathers from such fast-food chains as McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's. "They have siphoned off about 20% of supermarket poultry sales in the past five years," estimates Kent Hill, a marketing executive for Holly Farms. That is an increasingly important market share, as chicken begins to surpass beef in the American diet. Dinah Shore, the Tennessee-born singer and cookbook author, is the spokeswoman for Holly Farms Foods, which last week launched its oven-roasted chickens with a celebrity bash at Manhattan's Hard Rock Cafe. Some 400 hungry guests joined Shore to gorge...
First City needs all the cash it can get. Its loan portfolio includes $1.8 billion in debt on which interest is no longer being paid. The company's losses last year totaled $402 million, and are likely to surpass $300 million this year. Shares, valued at 41 in 1981, have fallen below 2. Because many wary customers have taken their funds elsewhere, total deposits have dropped 27%, to $9.9 billion, since...
Will Innerspace, the new comedy-fantasy directed by Joe Dante (Gremlins) and "presented" by Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones), join the parade of winners? Or even surpass them? It ought to. It's the summer's best "summer movie." This is a film with something -- indeed, too funny much -- for everybody. A sci-fi thriller in which one brave man is miniaturized to the size of a mote and takes a fantastic voyage into another man's buttock. A buddy picture in which both buddies occupy the same body. A classic romance of two men in love with the same girl...
...expects Airbus to surpass its U.S. rivals anytime in the foreseeable future. But if the European competitor keeps soaring, it is bound to clip more than a few American-made wings. For Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, prestige and big money are on the line, and the jet builders have no intention of giving up their dominance of the skies without a dogfight...