Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year 1966-67, Stacey reckons that his company has successfully concluded $50 million worth of corporate mergers. Clients give Chesham 4% for the first $1,000,000 paid for the acquired company, with a minimum of 1 % for all amounts in excess of $3,000,000. The outlook for the merger brokers is bright, for as Strathclyde University Professor K. J. Alexander puts it: "The curse of bigness has now been replaced by the cult of bigness." Consolidating the big, unwieldy corporations is only a start. England is still a country of almost cottage-size businesses whose copycat ways...
...glass of water three times a day before meals. Almost half of the 65 have been bothered at first by constipation, though only two have quit the test because of that. All patients have shown marked reductions not only in blood cholesterol but in other circulating fats that, in excess, may be still more damaging...
Management has hardened because of rising costs and declining profits, and is inclined to suffer strikes, especially those that help to clear away excess inventories. Union attitudes have stiffened both because the labor market is tight and because of increased militancy on the part of the rank and file. Most union members are in a better position this year to sit out a strike. A Detroit striker who is drawing benefits from the United Auto Workers and has some money in his bank account was inclined to welcome the chance to watch the World Series on television and to take...
...assume that persons will adopt one or the other (assuming that the subject even interests them) according to matters of personal taste and condition. The apocalyptic view has, of course, many supporters, most notably those of the newly emergent left who foresee a period of right wing oppression and excess, followed by the triumph of a new ideology. This will seem absurd to anyone who has never visited East Berlin. The more sanguine view will commend itself to those who would like to think it so, and this, as I say, is largely a matter of taste and condition. Such...
...Joel Fort, a San Francisco psychiatrist and frequent marijuana defender, stated that the drug causes no basic personality change, does not lead to sexual excess, and does not lead to progression to other drugs. Dr. Nicholas Malle-son, member of Britain's advisory commission on drug dependence and currently a visiting professor at M.I.T., agreed and added that it is not even psychologically addictive, "unless you would call my desire to go home after a day's work to have a gin and talk to my wife a psychologically dependent habit...