Word: surpassed
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...daring a general may be, he cannot wage and win wars if no one provides him with weapons. In that category, Ustinov excelled. During a career in the armaments industry that spanned five decades, he made certain that Soviet arsenals were never empty and lived to see his country surpass the U.S. in arms production...
Although this latest act of air piracy followed a grimly familiar pattern, it threatened to surpass other hijackings in sheer brutality. By week's end the terrorists had butchered at least four of their captives, including two Americans. They freed 146 hostages, but for the dozen or so men who remained on board, tied to their seats, conditions were said to be horrendous. There were reports that the Airbus had been disabled late Friday night by bursts of gunfire that shattered windows in the cockpit and cabin. A freed Pakistani passenger said the hostages had tried unsuccessfully to overpower...
...hard-line faction opposes any new arms-control measures on the ground that military competition is inherent in the superpower relationship, and the U.S. should not be fettered by arms-control agreements as it tries to match or surpass the Soviets. As one hard-liner put it early in Reagan's Administration, "Arms control is bad medicine; it is, ipsofacto, bad." Some of the arms-control opponents urged Reagan to use the meeting with Gromyko as a high-level gripe session to complain about a number of Soviet transgressions, prominently including alleged violations by Moscow of previous arms-control...
...timetable for Holmes, who will be 35 on Nov. 3, calls for him to fight five more times. If he wins all five, he would be 50-0 -- and surpass the late Marciano's unblemished record...
...appear particularly troubled by the vitriol coming out of Moscow. "Yes, the Soviet Union is unhappy," he observed. "They are unhappy because for the first time in a couple of decades we are preserving our security ability." If the Soviets were so concerned that the U.S. would surpass them in the arms race, said Reagan, they should come back to the negotiating table. The President pointedly avoided chastising the Kremlin for its treatment of the Sakharovs. "I just have a feeling that anything I might say publicly could be injurious to [Yelena Bonner's] chances," he noted diplomatically. Reagan...