Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their junkets, Chinese delegations carried elaborate shopping lists whose extravagance may far exceed the limits of the Chinese budget. Although China's international credit rating is excellent, the country has never dealt in the lofty sums now being discussed. The Chinese hope to finance their modernizations through development of oil exports, through joint ventures in which they pay off their debts in goods manufactured in foreign-built mainland factories, and through their immense human resources: manpower and discipline. One shadow over the New Long March, however, is doubt that the primitive Chinese economy can rouse itself to meet the price...
...than a month remains before Jimmy Carter presents to Congress his spending program for fiscal 1980, and Cutter and his OMB colleagues are locked in a furious struggle with almost the entire federal bureaucracy. The goal is to pare spending requests and put together a budget that will not exceed the $30 billion deficit that Carter has pledged. Congress is in a cutting mood, but may change its mind when specific sacrosanct programs come...
Eight dormitories now exceed their capacity limits. They are Adams House (minus students in Claverly) with 312 students to 300 allowed; Canaday, with 226 students to 214 allowed; Holworthy, 88 students to 83 allowed; Kirkland House, 332 students to 325 allowed; Pennypacker, 106 students to 89 allowed; Quincy House (minus students in Claverly), 414 students to 396 allowed; Weld Hall, 152 students to 139 allowed; and Wigglesworth Hall, 193 students to 188 allowed...
...known to gobble up U.S. Treasury securities, and have bought the bonds of such corporate giants as AT&T, General Motors and U.S. Steel. SAMA also puts deposits into 23 blue-chip American banks and some top foreign banks, though it limits these deposits so that they never exceed the bank's capital (in Citibank's case, the formula works out to about $2.8 billion). Overall, the Saudis told Blumenthal's delegation last year, their investments have an average maturity of only seven years, and bankers figure they are getting about an average 8% return...
...press conference last week, the President was asked if he would "put the bite on" Hershey Foods Corp. for raising the prices of its chocolate bars, peanut cups, candy kisses and other products an average of about 9%. Carter solemnly replied that if the increase did indeed exceed his standards, he would "disapprove it strongly. We do have some persuasion that we can exercise...