Word: surpassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French response was more muted. Iraq is now the largest supplier of French oil after Saudi Arabia. French sales to Baghdad surpass $400 million a year, including a recent contract for 36 Mirage F-l jets. On the ground that the three Iraqi guards who shot at the Palestinian kidnaper were diplomats, and thus immune from prosecution under the 1961 Vienna Convention, President Giscard merely ordered them home on the first available plane...
...estimated 1.6 billion bbl. of petroleum. The government owns a 50% share in a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, whose wells pump 230,000 bbl. per day; it is also one-third owner of the world's largest natural gas liquefaction plant. Brunei's revenues should surpass $1 billion this year, and the national surplus, already $2.5 billion, will grow by another $700 million...
...which $3.4 billion went for Social Security. Immediately the department became a political issue, as congressional Democrats pressured Ike to increase funding. He held off until the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957. Then the first significant breach was made in hold-the-line spending. Fearful that the Russians might surpass the U.S. in science and technology, the President backed the National Defense Education Act, which authorized $900 million in aid to schools and colleges, especially for scientific study...
...Harvard College Fund relies to a large degree on Class reunion gifts, which spark a good deal of friendly class rivalry each June. Clifton predicted that both the Class of '28 and the Class of '53 will reach or surpass their goals of $1 million and $1.5 million respectively...
Over the next decade, U.S. military strategists believe, the primary threat to Saudi Arabia may come from Iraq, with which the Saudis share 400 miles of a common but ill-defined desert border, enormous oil wealth and little else. Iraq, which is expected to surpass Iran in oil production by the mid-1980s is a power of the future. But even today, the radical Ba'ath regime in Baghdad has nearly three times the air capability of the Saudis, more than twice as many tanks, armored personnel carriers and helicopters, and five times as many men under arms...