Word: surpass
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...deregulation of a true single market where prices are increasingly denominated in euros rather than in marks, francs or pesetas. Hardly a week goes by without the announcement of a major consolidation--the $198 billion proposed takeover of German mobile-phone provider Mannesmann by British giant Vodafone AirTouch will surpass the AOL-Time Warner/deal as the largest merger ever. The most auspicious development of the past year, given Europe's historic fragmentation along national lines, is the cross-border merger. Aventis is the new, conspicuously neutral name for what used to be Germany's Hoechst and France's Rhone-Poulenc...
Administrators say they hope the project will help Harvard surpass schools such as Stanford that have had programs helping student entrepreneurs in place for decades...