Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dance studio. Since then, thanks largely to her sparkplugging, the Murrays have built an empire of 450 studios piling up an annual gross of $60 million in the U.S. and six foreign countries. Between running the empire and helping to plan and rehearse the TV show, Kathryn has enough excess energy to rise daily at 6 a.m. in her Park Avenue apartment and bake cakes and cookies for Arthur to munch at the office...
...first of the three offerings, The Majesty of the Law, based on a short story by Frank O'Connor, is the tale of a village patriarch who suffers from an excess of pride. It is a feeling often easier to portray by word than to dissect on film. By the time the bearded old curmudgeon (well bellowed by Noel Purcell) presents himself at the local jail to do time for cudgeling an old enemy, the viewer has been made aware several times over that the old boy would rather cut off his beard than pay his ?5 fine...
...many economists, alarm over automatic wage increases and administered prices and the cost-push inflation they cause seems exaggerated. They point to the absence of factors that produce a runaway inflation, notably a shortage of goods and an excess of money. The soft spots in the economy are expected to prevent major wage increases from spreading through the entire economy, as in the past, just as the ample supply of goods is expected to check overall price boosts. Last week outgoing Treasury Secretary George Humphrey told the Byrd committee probing Administration fiscal policies that the Administration's tight-money...
...Turf Blotter. A self-propelled machine that soaks up excess moisture from golf greens, grass-covered playing fields and hard-surfaced tennis courts is being sold by West Point Products Corp. A roller made of 24 cellulose sponges absorbs the water, squeezes it into a disposal pan. Cost...
...cigarette smokers had died at the same rate as nonsmokers, the researchers would have expected 4,651 deaths among the men studied; actually, they recorded 7,316. Of the 2,665 "excess deaths," no fewer than 1,338 (52%) were attributed to coronary artery disease, 1,670 (64%) to all diseases of the heart and arteries combined. This compared with 360 deaths caused by lung cancer and 359 by all other cancers...