Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That move did not dissuade automakers from planning price rises on the 1976 models due in dealers' showrooms in the fall. Last week General Motors notified dealers by letter that the increase would not exceed 6%-thus in effect putting a tentative figure on the rises that all automakers have been talking about as necessary to recoup rising costs of materials and labor. A 6% increase would amount to $335 per car; added to average rises of $1,000 per car over the past two model years, it surely would not help lift auto sales out of the doldrums...
...other countries, particularly Iran, opt for the trim Mach 2-plus (1,500 m.p.h.) craft, total production could reach almost 1,500 planes worth $9.1 billion. The agreed "not-to-exceed" price of $6.09 million (v. $5.5 million for the Mirage) per basic airplane, could, if 1,500 planes are in fact sold, add $4.3 billion to the credit side of the U.S. trade balance during the next ten years. The long-range total could be even higher; such extras as spare parts and technical additions could boost the per-plane price to $7.6 million...
Certain changes are proving especially unnerving to the campaign strategists. One is the spending limit of $10 million that a candidate cannot exceed through the primary period. This calls for more precise planning than in the past, since there is no way for a candidate to make a strong finish in the last primaries if he has spent most of his total to stay in the race through the earlier elections. A second is the limitation of $1,000 that any individual can donate to a candidate. This reform knocks out the influence of a relatively few wealthy donors...
...administrators "will just mess it up" if kept informed about what the Legislative Branch wants to do to the budget. Senator Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, pointedly wondered how many Congressmen voted for the budget limitation-they ruled that the deficit for fiscal 1976 should not exceed $68.8 billion-while reserving the right to vote for their own pet programs...
...could convince him I was a hit man working for a large olive oil concern out of Newark. Maybe I could claim to be making book on the upcoming Belmont Stakes. I don't remember what I said. I quickly exceed myself and beclined...