Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Apart," by Jerome Rubenstein, concerns itself with the individual crises confronting various members of a family following the death of the father. There is a plethora of material here, but it is precisely this excess which hurts the piece. More careful selection and better organization might have made it more forceful...
Once the U.S. had accepted the idea of pensions on a broad scale, private industrial plans spread rapidly, notably during World War II when the sky-high excess-profits tax made it possible for an employer to put $1,000,000 into a pension fund at a net cost of only $150,000. Today U.S. corporations have 13,000 retirement plans covering some 7,000,000 workers. On their own initiative, Americans have individually bought annuities that will pay them at least $750 million annually in their declining years, and are adding to this prospective income at a rate...
...Foreign Ministers also: 1) agreed it was high time to do something about the political, social and economic development of Africa; 2) assigned experts to study the problem of "excess population" in many countries and start "systematic exploration of opportunities for greater population mobility," i.e., migration; 3) agreed to meet again soon...
Mize was accompanied to the American Association affiliate by pitcher Duane Pillette and infielder Al (Billy) Martin. Clarence (Cuddles) Marshall, a pitcher, was sold to the St. Louis Browns for an unannounced sum, possibly not in excess...
...Rockefeller Institute), with whom he corresponded, Dr. Schemm was soon sure that he was on the right track. The nub of his idea was that dropsy victims were not waterlogged, but brine-logged. Edema fluid, said he, is no more fit for the body to use than sea water. Excess sodium in the body, usually in the form of its chloride (common salt), takes large amounts of water to keep it in solution. Often its demands are so great that a dropsy victim is simultaneously suffering from a shortage of water in other body functions-especially the kidneys, which...