Word: surpassed
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...million titles via America Online and a Website. Amazon countered by more than doubling its stock, to 2.5 million (including, a bit disingenuously, a million out-of-print books it will try to locate for you, an offer B&N quickly matched), and slashing prices up to 40% to surpass the bookstore's 30% hardcover discount...
...exploring avenues of thoughtful discussion, both students and College administration may follow in the foot-steps--or dare I say surpass--good works begun at the Kennedy School, throwing off the veil of political correctness and exposing both the good and the bad that lies beneath...
...March 7 and 8, at the Eastern tournament in Penn, the Crimson will begin their quest to better last season's record-setting performance. They hope to surpass the five Eastern place winners and three NCAA qualifiers of last year's team, both achievements Harvard records. They also plan on bettering the sixth place team finish, the highest placement for any Harvard squad since...
...order to avoid a Tuesday preliminary round match-up in a week and a half, the Crimson will have to bounce up to sixth place. Not only must the team surpass Colgate and Union, but it must also fend off St. Lawrence and Dartmouth which hang dangerously below Harvard in the standings...
...carries painful political baggage for North Korea, which was forced to back down earlier this week from its official "socialist paradise" ideology with a public admission that severe grain harvest shortfalls were causing "temporary food problems." Relief workers warn that North Korea is headed toward a famine which would surpass even the 1985 Ethiopian food crisis, with potential victims numbering in the tens of millions...