Word: surpassed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sand through a sieve. On busy street corners and in urban parks, pushers murmur, "Crack it up, crack it up," like some kind of evil incantation, bewitching susceptible kids and threatening society's sense of order and security. The public is outraged; opinion polls show that drug abuse has surpassed economic woes and the threat of real war as the nation's No. 1 concern. For a nation whose penchant for righteous crusades can surpass even its tolerance for libertine individualism, the crackdown against crack has become the latest celebrated cause...
...days a year on active duty; that includes one weekend each month plus a two-week outing. While the Army cannot grow beyond the 781,000 officers and men authorized by Congress, the National Guard now has 440,000 and the Reserve 242,000. Those two forces may soon surpass the manpower of the regular Army. The numbers have virtually forced the Army to assign National Guard units to combat roles. Fully 44% of the Army's combat units come from the Guard, which by one estimate is now the seventh largest army in the free world...
Many of the American travelers are heading south. For ten years running, Florida has remained the most popular state for tourists. One reason: the Disney World amusement park in Orlando, the single most popular destination in the U.S. This year Disney may surpass its record of attracting 22 million visitors. The number of campsites in the area has increased 50% in the past eight months, to a total of 12,000. Disney World has also boosted the number of its hotel rooms 10% in the past year...
...continues through next year, this economic upswing will become one of the longest on record, having begun in December 1982. The average postwar recovery has lasted only three years, so the current one is now already longer than normal. Still the economy has a long way to go to surpass the remarkable growth of the 1960s. In the longest recovery since World War II, the U.S. economy steadily expanded from 1961 to 1969, a record 105 months...
...economy in recent months and become matters of grave concern in American boardrooms, courtrooms and legislatures. In 1985 companies were acquired, wholly or in part, at the frantic rate of eleven a day. When the dollar value of those deals is finally totted up, it is certain to surpass the record $125 billion reached in 1984. Says Democratic Representative Timothy Wirth, who chairs a House subcommittee that has been studying acquisitions: "These mergers and takeovers are having as profound an impact on the American economy as the advent of the great railroads, the airplane and the telephone...