Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adams, who is a direct descendant of two presidents, said he was running for the Senate to oppose what he contended was President Johnson's excess exercise of power in foreign affairs...
Observes have interpreted Neustadt's statement as an attempt by the Administration to pressure the union into giving up the strike. A victory by the machinists, it is feared, would encourage other unions to seek contract settlements in excess of the guidelines set out by the Administration, resulting in an inflationary spiral...
...continue the common practice of charging wealthier patients more than others, to help offset the costs of charity work. What the Federal Government hoped was that doctors would bill directly only those patients they expected to pay higher-than-average fees, thus eliminating the possibility that an "unreasonable" excess might be tacked onto the bill of a patient who could not afford it. But when the question came to a vote in the house of delegates, the moderates were overridden and all A.M.A. doctors were urged-though not required-to bill every patient directly. The way some delegates...
Though the resemblance of Madness to Bondomania is otherwise superficial, Director Irvin Kershner savors the joke to excess. The rest of Elliott Baker's screenplay, adapted from his own 1964 novel and filmed with careful fidelity on the seedy side of Manhattan, is a fitfully funny satire based on a portrait of the artist as the natural enemy of all Establishment norms. This voguish half-truth worked well enough in book form, where nearly every character was a well-managed mass of lunatic impulses. In the movie, everyone seems to be racing against the threat of imminent condensation. Director...
...brothers themselves have plenty of ideas of reform. One common complaint is lack of democracy and excess of gerontocracy. Superiors are appointed rather than elected, often are considered ready for authority only at an age when laymen would be considering retirement. "You had to have six strokes to qualify for office," complains one brother. To emphasize their vocation as laymen, some brothers would like to abandon their religious robes; others hold that brothers should now be ordained as priests or deacons to help solve the church's worldwide shortage of clerics. But chastity is not a burning issue-"marriage...