Word: surpassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have taken a number of economic measures [increased taxes on higher incomes, tightened credit policy]. This is not a long-term program. Its aim is to bring inflation under control. I believe that by the end of this year, inflation will not surpass 12% or 13%. Last year and at the beginning of this, Greece had the highest inflation rate in Europe, around...
...humorless, intellectual fanatic who first tried submerging himself in the Roman Catholic Church and then, with equally uncritical fervor, opted for the ego and power trip of politics. Others speculate that his drive is pure Freud, the compulsive, humorless, self-righteous attempt of a quiet young man to surpass the booming, back-slapping old pol who happened to be his father. To his family and friends, Brown is simply a shy, intelligent man with "a missionary spirit...
Once again today all eyes will be on Harvard's record-setting split end Pat McInally, who now needs just 54 yards worth of receptions to become the second player in the history of Crimson football to surpass the 1000-yard mark...
...menu offers four or five hot main dishes ranging in price from $1.30 to $1.95 at lunch and rising by about 50 cents at dinner. In addition, there is a standard menu of lighter snacks, desserts, and crepes--which fall short of La Crepe in variety but far surpass them in quality. The garden salad, which features large chunks of cucumber, tomatoes, green pepper and carrots with an excellent house dressing, is also outstanding...
Incredibly, the Krupp's achievements surpass those of mere munitions making. Perhaps it is worth recalling the 100,000 slave, laborers in at least 100 concentration camps operated by the Krupps during the Second World War. As testimony at the Nuremberg Trials showed: Alfried Krupp's exploitation of slave labor was worse than any other industrialist's. Nowhere else was there such sadism, such senseless barbarity, such shocking treatment of people as dehumanized material. His power was absolute and therefore absolutely corrupting...