Word: excess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city, despite its placid lakeshore site, is a grim spot enlivened mainly by nocturnal vices: gambling, drinking, whoring. In one notorious district there is a tavern for every three dwellings. Though he cherishes his own ration of wine (teetotaling comes later in Protestant history), the cleric inveighs against every excess. He condemns dancing as a prelude to fornication and finds Genevan feasting obscenely luxurious. (Among the new ordinances he demands is one limiting banquets to three courses of a mere four plates each...
Glancing nervously about the room, McGaw wiped her forehead, pushing her bangs to the side. "I saw him earlier today," she answered. A hush swept over the courtroom as the judge asked her to look again. Prosecutor Burns informed the judge that the courtroom held an "excess of 70 people, 60 per cent Black and 40 per cent white...
...prevent them from raising wages to attract workers from declining or stagnant industries. Oil-using industries, facing rising prices abroad, would have to pay more for oil. Are they to go broke? Or again, suppose there is a poor world harvest, so that at current prices there is an excess demand for grain. How is this grain to be allocated if not by price? Another administrative machinery...
Throughout the developed world, trouble is brewing for one of modern society's most basic industries: steel. Producers everywhere are struggling with softening demand and excess capacity. Western European producers are trying to ensure their survival by dismantling older, inefficient plants and concentrating their slimmed-down industry not on raw steel but on sophisticated finished and specialty steels that have strong markets at home and abroad. But some of the toughest problems lie ahead for the American steel industry; 26% of its capacity is still outdated despite a series of closings over the past three years. The outlook...
...leader of Democratic Kampuchea (as the Khmer Rouge call Cambodia), succeeding notorious ex-Premier Pol Pot, who nonetheless still commands the guerrilla army. In a lengthy statement to visiting journalists, Samphan claimed that the Khmer Rouge has a fighting force of 50,000, a figure that is far in excess of most Western estimates. He called for unity among Cambodians of all political beliefs in order to drive out the invaders. In striking contrast to the fanatical rigidity of past Khmer Rouge pronouncements, Samphan even proposed a coalition government that might include Prince Norodom Sihanouk and Heng Samrin, who heads...