Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hungary and the Soviet Union are moving slowly ahead, Yugoslavia is stumbling backward. Some 1,000 strikes have flared since Belgrade first froze wages in February. The country is staggering beneath nearly 200% inflation, the highest in Europe, and a 15% unemployment rate that only a few European countries exceed. At the same time, Mikulic is desperately trying to finance $19 billion in hard-currency debt. "This is perhaps Yugoslavia's greatest crisis in almost 40 years," said a Western diplomat long resident in Belgrade. "All the indications are that Mikulic cannot survive. But the bigger question is whether...
Gatwood also said the likelihood is small that the quantities of substances used for cleaning by Harvard's facilities and maintenance department exceed even the lower of the two numbers...
...comparison with the disappointingly small improvement in the previous month's results. The disclosure of those results on Oct. 14 helped trigger the crash five days later. Despite September's narrowing, the trade gap remains huge by any standard. At the current rate, the 1987 deficit is likely to exceed last year's record of $156 billion by some $10 billion...
...Cambridge city ordinance, which Harvard has used as a guideline in setting its policy on performances at Forbes Plaza, requires that noise must not exceed 80 decibels within the city limits...
...stigma attaches to the love of money in America, and provided it does not exceed the bounds imposed by public order, it is held in honor. The American will describe as noble and estimable ambition that our medieval ancestors would have called base cupidity...