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...Kremlin concentrates on supplying actual hardware and delivering it quickly; by contrast, related technical support systems account for 40% of American sales, and shipments take twice as long as the Soviets'. Thus the Soviets far surpass the U.S. in deliveries of specific major weapons. Since 1977 they have sent to the Third World about twice as many tanks (5,750 to 3,030), three times as many artillery pieces (7,150 to 2,780), four times as many fighter jets (2,290 to 540) and twice as many antiaircraft missiles...
...mansion, did not need the news out of Washington last week. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board reported that the nationwide mortgage interest rate rose to a blistering average 16.95% in early July, a record, and nearly double the rate of just five years ago. It is expected to surpass 17% this month. This means that a couple buying a $70,000 house, who have put down the standard 25% and financed the remaining $52,500 mortgage for 25 years, would have monthly principal and interest payments of $755. They would wind up putting out $244,000 for the dwelling...
Some players will pay a sort of professional price for the strike. Pete Rose, for example, is looking to surpass Ty Cobb's record of 4,191 hits and become baseball's alltime hit leader; Rose is at 3,630 now, but at 40, will need another few seasons to catch Cobb. Indeed, he needs only one more hit to pass Stan Musial; he got a hit last week-in a softball game in Cincinnati. Tom Seaver of the Reds needs 48 wins to join that select group of pitchers with 300 career victories; at 36, he cannot...
...Human's worst to surpass bounds...
...Eastern law school, but the fact that it takes place at Harvard has a lot to do with this attitude. The vast majority of the people in this country only know Harvard as the Law School, and its graduates are accorded the esteem that only truly singular achievment can surpass. The show should be kept in perspective for what it is, a group of people getting together to have a good time. But a narcissistic effort of an elite to distinguish itself should be perceived also...