Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Says Economist Bullock: "It simply doesn't make good sense economically to give up hustling pot in order to concentrate on a car-wash or service-station job. As long as the rewards of welfare dependency or hustling exceed the income from a job, the ghetto resident is merely obeying the sacrosanct American principle of maximizing his economic gains. This fact, of course, deeply offends those middle-class Americans who are vigorously pursuing these same goals...
...years later the English Society agreed to cover the costs of educating the Indian students and of building the Indian College (the cost of the building not to exceed 120 pounds, "besides glasse"). But President Dunster carried out plans on a more ambitious scale, and the Society ended up paying nearly 400 pounds for the building. (To some modern eyes, the whole Indian project appears to have been a blind to get a new building for Harvard...
There will probably be a greater number of black students in the class than ever before, although the exact number is not yet known. One official said he would be "disappointed and surprised" if the number of blacks in the class of '72 did not exceed the approximately 40 in this year's freshman class...
...Britain's already stiff regular income taxes. The result is that taxpayers now have to pay at least 690 on every dollar of investment income over $7,200. The total tax rate rises to 100%. when so-called "unearned income" reaches $43,200. After that, taxes actually exceed income. For example, people with investment income of more than $120,000 have to shell out at least $1.26 on every dollar over that amount, making it necessary to dig into capital to pay their tax bills...
...shattered. The number of new homeless refugees now clogging city slums stands at 650,000 and is still climbing; and there were already 800,000 refugees pre-Tet. Saigon has not even begun to calculate its civilian dead, and the countrywide figure, when complete, may well exceed...