Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enthusiasm, Ford's view of the future remains strangely negative. He talks of "constructive alternatives" to Johnson bills, and Republican proposals to solve urban problems. But he insists that spending on domestic problems must be cut substantially, even if the Administration requests a raise in taxes. Excess appropriations, he argues, have led to high prices and high interest rates, the principal reason for the Republican victory last month. And so, "they certainly have to make some bona fide effort to reduce non-military, non-essential spending before they could under any circumstances ask for an increase in federal taxes...
...Madness and non-intelligence is not a sufficient answer to the excess intelligence of today's "Mega-Machine," philosopher Lewis Mumford warned last night...
...shipped home. This month the Navy was ready to outline why. In a World War II barracks at Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, Kuntze went before a court martial to face charges of importing bolt upon bolt of Thai silk and other fabrics into Viet Nam "in excess of his demonstrable personal need," illegally converting $12,000 worth of Vietnamese piastres and U.S. military scrip into dollars, and-possibly the most offensive of all sins to his shore-based seniors-installing Jannie as his mistress...
Clotting Factor. To explain the higher blood viscosity of Raynaud's victims, the Walder group now indicts an excess of fibrinogen, one of the several substances involved in the blood-clotting mechanism, and a major factor in blood sludging. On this theory, the surgeons are treating 40 patients with intravenous drips of blood thinners ("plasma expanders") and anti-clotting drugs. The researchers claim no dramatic effects, but report cautiously that these treatments have improved the patients' peripheral circulation, "at least temporarily." In the more serious cases, they say, the treatments "were of considerable value...
Better Photography. Though Aldrin had fewer troubles than earlier space walkers, Gemini 12 itself had more than its share of minor problems. One by one, during the flight, four of Gemini's 16 thrusters failed. Two of the craft's six fuel-cell stacks went dead, and excess water produced by the others threatened to flood the entire power system. To make room for the excess fuel-cell water, which is impure, the astronauts were asked to consume more than their planned ration of drinking water and ran short on the last day of the flight...