Word: surpassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...housewife-saleswomen are awarded such prizes as new cars, microwave ovens and all-expense trips to London and Tokyo with their husbands. Of late, Dart has found the seemingly all-American formula quite as valuable overseas: Tupperware has been expanding abroad, and per capita sales in France now surpass those...
...highest levels, he is an intensely moral man. Marlowe is certainly his own man. He has codes of morality, justice, legitimacy. And he is comfortable in an urban, mechanized world. Even though the same essential things happen in each succeeding Chandler novel, the character Philip Marlowe seems to surpass his environment, deepening our perception of him, and strengthening him through the stereotype...
...deficits equal or surpass everyone's wildest fears, Hall said, there will be two options: to borrow the money from the Corporation and hope for a rebound next year; or to use the Food Services' equipment reserve fund. The second choice would depend on the absence of disasters such as Lowell House's kitchen fire last year or other unexpected breakdowns, he added...
...Dean is the only person I have heard who can surpass my teen-agers with excuses about why it wasn't their fault and why they shouldn't be blamed and how they really didn't mean to be there, and after all I had said "Good evening" to them when they came home, so I must have known what was going on and agreed...
...Paris-born team of forecasters fielded by Futurist Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute caused a sensation in Europe last spring when it predicted that the French gross national product would surpass West Germany's in the 1980s. Now a Swiss research firm, Prognos, A.G., has come to a contrary conclusion: though West Germany is headed for some severe strains, it is likely to remain dominant in Western Europe for at least 20 years...