Word: exceedingly
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...third ) was larger than ever. For another, Romney has gained the reputation of an apolitical, progressive business wizard who solved Michigan's fiscal problems. Aided by the economic boom of the past few years, Romney has obliterated his state's financial debt even though his own budgets increasingly exceed those of his Democratic predecessors...
...work. Before the days of cheap, non-corrosive metals, it was widely used for sluice boxes, water tanks, pipelines, pier piles, fences and wine casks. Today, homeowners use it for outdoor terraces and to panel both exteriors and interiors. So well does the wood sell that profits sometimes exceed 25% of total earnings. The Arcata Redwood Co., for instance, made $2,640,000 in 1965 on sales of $8,930,000. Much of the profit, of course, goes toward reforesting cleared areas with redwood saplings so that a continual supply of the tawny lumber is assured future generations. Though they...
Simmer Down. To be sure, the stimulus will be selective: big-city banks, whose time deposits far exceed the $5,000,000 that qualifies for the Fed's lower 3% requirement, will find the new funds relatively less important. But the easing measure promises to give some breathing room to such hard-pressed sectors of the economy as housebuilding. In San Francisco, Bank of America President Rudolph Peterson welcomed the Federal Reserve Board's "help to stimulate expansion, particularly in the housing area," promptly cut rates for some home mortgages from...
...reinforced by its own pecking order. Since the front-line patrol-car force has the lowest status, it tends to consist of men who have failed promotion or who have been demoted. Rookies learn that the way out of the car is to write more traffic tickets and exceed their informal quotas (based on anticipated crime) in making "field interrogations" and misdemeanor arrests. Civil rights leaders argue that police sometimes overexercise their discretionary powers by hitting minority groups for marginal offenses. In slum areas, critics claim, such zeal is often self-defeating: for the poor, unpaid traffic tickets and minor...
...school. This reflects the fact that the public colleges and universities draw students from a far broader range of economic levels than do the private schools-even those that are liberal with scholarships. More than a fourth of the freshmen at private universities come from families whose annual incomes exceed $20,000, while 27.8% of public freshmen come from families earning less than $6,000. Officials of public universities are overwhelmingly convinced that tuition must be kept low if the schools are to remain accessible to a broad economic spectrum of the population...