Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aggravated the 13-month drought that has plagued eight Western states. A high-pressure system lay off the West Coast, diverting winds northward to pick up arctic cold and blocking the normal flow of moisture to the West. In California, the loss in crops and other agricultural production may exceed $1 billion, and the water shortage is already affecting daily living in some unlikely places. One is Marin County, an affluent, scenic suburban area just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco...
...order that "every person in it can embrace it in his mind and imagination." If growth beyond this size appears necessary, new fully independent units are to be set up along the lines of Scott Bader. Also, the ratio of the highest wages paid to the lowest must not exceed 7:1 before taxes. Applied to General Motors, this arrangement would limit chairman T.A. Murphy's salary and benefits to $95,000, instead of the approximately $1 million he currently receives...
This year's cold weather may force the University to exceed its alloted steam heating budget by between $140,000 and $193,000, a University official predicted yesterday...
...present danger to production and jobs. In 1970 countries in the European Community bought $300 million worth of goods more than they sold in trade with Japan. In 1975 the trade deficit was more than $3 billion, and in '76, reckons the nine-nation group, it will exceed $4 billion. For the past two months, the Europeans have been pushing the Japanese hard to reduce the imbalance, but not enough has yet been accomplished to remove the threat of a trade war between the non-Communist world's second and third mightiest economies...
...financing the state's conservation programs, including the possible acquisition of some 200,000 acres of land for hunting reserves and wildlife refuges. Their ballot contains a proposal to levy an additional sales tax of one-eighth of 1% and put aside the revenues, which are expected to exceed $20 million a year, for conservation. Opposition to any tax increase and fears that the earmarked funds may siphon off for conservation projects money that is needed elsewhere have aroused unexpected controversy about the proposal. "It may be too close to call," says Robert Van Ark of the Missouri Public...