Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remedies ready. One way to cure the disease, he said, was to reduce the money supply and thereby cut demand. He proposed: voluntary wage ceilings, lower profits (and lower prices), an end to Government support of farm prices (unless price ceilings were restored). To sop up excess credit, he wanted the Government to keep high tax rates and whittle the federal debt. To check the flow of new credit he wanted to raise the banks' reserve requirements and force interest rates...
More than $4000 of excess rents have been demanded and received from them and from 25 other occupants since December 1 1946, the students stated. Under the law they are entitled to recover three times that amount...
...merits, a good transcription becomes a piece of music which can be enjoyed as a new work. Purists might still complain, but with far less justification. Two Bach cantata choruses were also enlarged, but not so successfully. Despite the quality of performance, the effect was marred by the excess of performers, especially in the second where a series of flute echoes were drowned out by the preceding blasts...
...Removing excess...
...lines. Besides, like most Colombians, they are proud of the fleet, which began operations last spring (TIME, May 5) under the joint sponsorship of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador, to break what was regarded as a U.S. shipping monopoly. The Colombian Government has helped with exemption from income and excess profits taxes and from port charges...