Word: surpass
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...current growth rate, India will surpass China as the most populous country by 2015. Because India is a democracy, its destiny--whether it becomes a confident, peaceful global power or remains shackled by nationalist insecurity--depends less on the policies of its government than on the vision of its people. The following are four confident citizens shaping the face of India today and providing a glimpse into its tomorrow...
...Weiler and Stefan Avalos, two freelancing filmmakers, spent all of $900 in 1997 to shoot a digital-video movie called The Last Broadcast, which, like The Blair Witch Project, was a mockumentary horror movie involving a murder in the woods (in the future, it seems, "Arboreal Murder Mockumentary" will surpass "Romantic Tearjerker" as the most popular Blockbuster category...
...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...