Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opposition has accussed me of wanting to end road construction. This is false. What I do want to end is the present excess of spendthrift costs, padded payrolls, and such items as overlaying a structurally strong bridge with useless bricks at high cost, items that are legion today...
During the hearings, it was discovered that Kelly, who earns $18,000 a year as Attorney General, reported a net income of $150,000 last year. The excess was from "outside" law practice, he said. Besides, Kelly's record of convictions and his general policy has not been very good when compared with Governor Dever's record when he served as Attorney General. There are less significant but equally disconcerting episodes in Kelly's career: the fixing of each other's traffic violation summonses by Kelly's assistant attorney generals, the slugging of a heckler at a political rally...
...structural and plate steel. In a routine check of the companies' books, OPS auditors stumbled on $719,831.48 in charges for brokers' and finders' fees which had been illegally passed on to customers. Barium agreed, out of court, to pay a fine equal to the excess charges plus $291,292.15 in penalties...
What with all the mutinies, floggings, knife duels, fist fights and shootings, most of the cast gets killed off, the villains get their due, and strong-jawed Ireland gets both the treasure and Yvonne. With its excess of haphazard and murkily motivated action, Hurricane Smith is likely to leave the moviegoer at sea most of the time...
...that he thinks that over-production of civilian goods may cause a recession. He pointed out that there is currently more output per man-hour ($35 billion) than is used for defense ($28 billion). This recession will be mild, he thinks, because a slide-off in government spending, the excess profits tax, income tax cuts, more consumer buying, larger budgets for state and local public works, and no decrease in residential building may help forestall any serious collapse...