Word: surmounting
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...raising money is already easier than itonce was. National fundraising organizationssupporting women candidates, such as Emily's Listand the Women's Campaign Fund, have beenincreasingly able to help women surmount financialdisadvantages...
...sentence, she finds in her yard Vercueil, a foul-smelling vagrant who lives off his wits and other people's garbage. Together they forge an unexpected friendship that provides them both with the only breath of kindness in a world that has forsaken its humanity. First, however, they must surmount their differences. Mrs. Curren is determined to fight to the last, trying to stamp out South Africa's proliferating injustices; Vercueil wants only to disappear into his cardboard shack without responsibility to anyone or anything...
...slim volume, adapted from a series of lectures by Bok at Duke University in 1988, presents the strong argument that universities have failed to fulfill their full potential in "helping America surmount the obstacles that sap our economic strength and blight the lives of millions of our people...
...Copley to Kroc triple play made possible San Diego's recent Soviet Arts Festival. The mayor first dreamed up the idea of a big 22-event festival with a flashy Faberge show couched among operas and ballets. But it took the money and clout of her two friends to surmount vehement opposition to it. Copley and Kroc covered half the festival's budgeted cost by anteing up $500,000 and $1 million respectively. Then Copley's opinion-making dailies swung behind it. To clinch the deal, Kroc kicked in with a $2.8 million Faberge egg she had bought at auction...
...traps, accidents and fights for control of its radio dial) to him in Florida unscathed and on time for their mother's birthday. But Fred unconsciously knows what movie storytellers have always known: if you force a disparate group of males together for a journey, they will, as they surmount its obstacles, achieve what Fred's sons lack -- true brotherhood...