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What's more, outstanding home and auto loans to borrowers with lousy credit histories surpassed $300 billion this year.
The Maya have a special place in the imagination — perhaps only surpassed by the ancient Egyptians — and their traditional motifs and copies of their ceremonial artifacts make popular souvenirs.
His dreams were fulfilled, and even surpassed, by his son Alexander the Great, in a brief but action-filled lifetime of only 33 years (356–323 b.c. ). In 334 b.c. , aged only 22, he led his army across the Hellespont (now the Dardanelles), and paused at Troy to make a sacrifice at the temple of Athena and pay homage to his hero Achilles, before going on to defeat the Persians at the Battle of Granicus and liberating the Ionian cities.
The constant outpouring of sympathy and support that we observed in interactions among community members surpassed anything a patient might conceivably expect to receive at a doctor's office.
And the Wall Street Journal has a stat about non-holiday Web activity that drives home the point that some sort of benchmark has been passed: the total worth of the investment firm Charles Schwab has just surpassed that of Merrill Lynch.