Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first annual report since moving to Ford from the White House, President McGeorge Bundy last week served notice that the foundation was cutting back its grants from the current annual rate of $362 million to around $200 million, which would still be about $40 million in excess of this year's estimated income. Those who have benefited most from Ford generosity-U.S. colleges and universities-will be hardest hit, though they still remain high on the foundation's list of priorities. One program that may end is the matching of capital grants, under which 80 colleges...
...Harvard is isolated from the outside world, Peretz continued, and needs to bring in officials from Washington -- "there are even some of us who think they are already in excess." In forcing the students to examine the Establishment and its mechanical process, Peretz said, the Institute has failed to internalize any kind of critical format which will allow the student to judge the Government as well as understand it. "If the people who are brought to speak to the students about politics can't be candid with them, then they just as well might be appearing on 'Meet the Press...
Lipset admits, however, that the closer one gets to the Government, the less critical one becomes: "you have friends in the Establishment and you realize the problems they face and the goodwill with which they make mistakes." There is no question that excess knowledge may inhibit criticism, and there are times when an outside, critical appraisal can be valuable to the Government in the long-run, he said...
...nine suffered at least minor bleeding from their stomach walls into the intestines, and in 150 it was substantial. In The Netherlands, three doctors have just reported five cases of generalized anemia (deficiency of red and white cells and of platelets) that they attribute to aspirin consumed to excess...
...surplus in storage to supply every coffee drinker for more than a year. Though present quotas allow it to sell only about 60% of its average 30-million-bag crops, the growers could not care less. A beneficent government has always stepped in to buy and store the huge excess. But such generosity is coming to an end. With $70 million in government backing, Brazilian Coffee Institute President Leonidas Borio has pioneered a campaign to "break the old taboo that only coffee is important." More with Less. Under the plan, growers are being offered up to 220 for each...