Word: surpassed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sees the deal as vital to its long-term survival. In a business in which size has become synonymous with strength, Uniroyal Goodrich is looking to Michelin for financial might and technical know-how. If the merger is completed, the new company (combined 1988 sales: $10.9 billion) may well surpass Goodyear ($10.8 billion) as the world's largest tiremaker...
...there would be a public outcry. Yet more Americans die of gunshot wounds every two years than have died to date of AIDS. Similarly, guns take more American lives in two years than did the entire Viet Nam War. Only automobile accidents (total deaths per year: 48,700) surpass shootings as the leading cause of injury-induced fatalities. But while auto safety is a continuing public preoccupation, most Americans seem inexplicably indifferent to guns or unwilling to do much about them...
...Japan has shown the capacity to deal forcefully with problems when the national will is clear and strong. When the people became alarmed in the 1970s about the dangers that air pollution and toxic wastes pose to human health, Japan developed antipollution policies and technologies that in many cases surpass U.S. standards. The country's extensive program of garbage recycling is a model for all industrial nations. If Japan decides to guard the environment around the world with this kind of care, then the island nation might turn its critics into admirers...
...that "grades are a concrete embodiment of many issues." For one thing, bad grades can unleash parents' anxieties about their social status and their children's prospects. To the poor, success in school offers a way for children to escape impoverished lives. Middle-class parents push their offspring to surpass their own accomplishments. And wealthy, well-educated people routinely expect stellar performances from youngsters...
Black representation at Harvard, for example, has yet to surpass significantly a level reached 20 years ago--the first year Harvard began recruiting efforts. Yet the representation of Black students here still falls below the 12.4 percent representation in the population at large. Hispanic students too come to Harvard in fewer numbers than their 7.5 percent nationwide representation...