Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demand for long-term credit," said Vice President Tilford C. Gaines of the First National Bank of Chicago, "is running well in excess of the available supply of money." As a result, despite Federal Reserve pressure to keep borrowing costs low enough to stimulate the economy, interest rates on corporate and municipal bonds have climbed back to a point close to their 1966 peak. As the money pinch began easing late last year, yields of Aa-rated corporate bonds dropped from September's 6.35% zenith to a low of 5.20% by the end of January. By last week...
...statement that "Greece today has not retained much of its ancient legacy of moderation and temperance" reveals ignorance. Scholars have long taken pains to show the absurdity of this view of 5th century Athens. "The most civilized society that has ever existed," wrote "Nothing in Excess" into its marble because it needed the reminder. It was prone to extremes because it cared. Like today's Greeks, 5th century Athenians were intelligent, thoughtful and energetic, so they were concerned, argumentative and politically active. Like George III, TIME has been viewing these people as a rabble, a mob; their political demonstrations...
...Opus Dei, the vows for lay members are somewhat less strict than for priests. Whether or not they have taken the vows, members may own their own cars and homes and salt away enough money to protect themselves from financial ruin, but they are expected to turn over all "excess" income to the organization. They may marry and have children ("Chastity does not mean celibacy"), but they must remain faithful to the "spirit" of chastity. Single members, moreover, must agree to go anywhere that Opus Dei sends them, and all must follow the guidance of their religious counselor...
Rhoden Streeter works too hard at Puck. He is too often heard gasping supreme ecstasy and his "Lord, what fools they mortals be," is, like the rest of his part, produced with excess force. Towards the end of the play he relaxes more than he should and falls to a cheerless drone...
...grace, Lee got $6,000,000 in government-backed loans to finance the fertilizer plant. The remainder of the money included a $43.9 million loan from Japan's Mitsui & Co. and a $1,000,000 investment by International Ore and Fertilizer Corp. of New York, which will market excess output abroad...