Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Citing the Houses as one of these "advantages," he declared that their educational and social potentialities cannot be fully realized "in years of excess numbers...
...cure for inflation-if a harsh one. As London's Economist put it: "Rising prices and inflation are . . . associated together, like scarlet fever and rising temperatures. . . . But so far from being the same thing, one is nature's cure for the other. Inflation is an excess of demand over supply and one way in which the two can be brought into balance is by such a rise in prices that the available supply absorbs the demand. . . . Nobody in his senses would advocate an indefinite rise in prices as an end in itself. But it does bring the inflation...
...response to the recent Wigglesworth petition, contractors ordered excess conversation eliminated and worked out several other plans in an effort to diminish all other noise...
Canada's government had decided that it was in Canada's interest to sell surplus warplanes (and ammunition for their guns) to the Nationalist government of China. Theoretically, Ottawa's policy toward the Chinese civil war was still "hands off," but by selling excess war equipment the government saw a chance to turn an honest dollar. For 323 Mosquito fighter-bombers, and to put them in condition for shipping, China spent...
Lack of cooperation between the occupying powers has caused excess of anthracite coal in the western zones, and surplus of lignite coal in the Russian zone, asserted Friedrich. Denied the anthracite, the Soviets are using lignite in industrial consumption, causing tremendous wastes...