Word: surpassed
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Unprecedented Defiance. Russia's Czechoslovak invasion may, in fact, prove to be a watershed in the development of Communism that could surpass in importance the breakaways of Yugoslavia and China from what was a monolithic world organization at the close of World War II. In an unprecedented show of defiance, the great majority of the world's 88 Communist parties have refused to approve Moscow's action against Czechoslovakia. Albania, China's Adriatic ally, even seized on the occasion last week to announce its complete withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact...
...capital on European money markets. Last week the Government reported that U.S. corporations figure to borrow, or arrange to borrow, more than $3 billion abroad this year. Because of their success in arranging loans such as these, the total U.S. corporate investment abroad this year is expected to surpass the $10.2 billion it totaled in 1967-without increasing the dollar outflow...
...civil rights strife, the American consumer is pouring out vast amounts of money for new wheels. With the year half gone, Detroit has sold 3,830,725 cars, a jump of 342,994 over the same period in 1967. And automakers were happily predicting that if 1968 does not surpass the alltime record of 1965, it will still be a 9,000,000-plus year-perhaps the second best ever...
...nations surpass the U.S. in overall homicide rates, all of them Latin lands, where violence is stimulated by the code of machismo. But with a rate of 5.6 homicides per 100,000, the U.S. has the dubious distinction of outpacing, by far, all other industrialized nations which have stringent gun laws. This is true especially in gun deaths. In 1962, there were 29 murders by gunfire in all of England and Wales (with one-fourth the U.S. population), 37 in Japan (with one-half the population) and 4,954 in the U.S. Out of 400,000 criminals arrested in England...
...time national champion still has a chance to surpass Pera tonight in the free skating competition, the deciding event in the championship...