Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monro's second prediction is that college tuitions will rise sharply in the next few years. There are a great many people who could pay more than the $1000 that Harvard charges and thus reduce the annual excess of expenditure over income per student. The money saved here could be poured into aid for needier students and into faculty salaries. It seems quite likely that Harvard will have to raise its tuition soon. In an article on faculty salaries, Dean Bundy has said, "We face needs so great and urgent that we shall probably have to plan for both...
STEEL PRICE RISE, "considerably in excess of the inadequate increase" of an average $8.50 a ton last year, will be needed when steelworkers' wages and fringe benefits go up about 19? an hour in July, predicts Republic Steel Chairman C. M. White...
Gross did some of his best playing of the afternoon in the next work, Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata. The first movement was crisp and sure, although now and then the tempo wavered; the second was free of the excess of sentiment by which it is so often destroyed; the third was just right...
...raincoat must be tired-looking, and to be correct should have grimy rings around the collar and cuffs, and perhaps a torn pocket. The raincoat is to be worn to excess indoors, at Hayes-Bick's, for example, or in lecture, since besides the elements this garment is meant to fend off the hostilities of a mundane world, and by sheer yardage at that. A mutation in the foul-weather line is the army-surplus trenchcoat; while it does not have the buckles and straps and rings of a good Burberry, it is distinctively green and of a suitably rude...
...only 4,000 heavy-duty trucks since 1947, although capacity is 3,000 a year. Shortages of iron ore, coal and electricity cut last year's steel output by 9%, to 1,146,000 tons. Payrolls are overloaded. Until last December, an employer could not fire incompetent or excess workers without paying staggering fines. Many plants that needed only 400 workers had 1,000. Production costs are so high that Spanish industries cannot compete in world markets...