Word: excessive
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Sunlight & Rain. The '65 champagne, because of a scarcity of sunlight and excess of rain during the grape-growing season, will not be a great vintage product. Nevertheless, for the sixth year in a row, France's 140 champagne makers will set a record in production and sales. In all, last year, they sold 78.6 million bottles worth $200 million...
Unreasonable Delusions. The most perfect Hemingway hero, unhappily, did not decline as a Hemingway hero should have. Papa grew increasingly gaunt and anxious in his last months. He got upset over trifles, worried that an airline would not accept him with excess baggage, despaired because he was sure he could not pick up his guns at Abercrombie & Fitch after his lawyer had neglected to pay a bill. Gradually, he began to believe that he was being followed by Government agents and that his family and friends had somehow betrayed...
...last three months of 1965, then such is the increase in buying power that imports grow twice as fast. In the fourth quarter, they shot up 17½% and Commerce experts predict that performance will continue through 1966. As a result, the U.S. trade surplus-the excess of exports over imports-continues to melt, from $6.7 billion in 1964 to $4.8 billion in 1965 to its present annual rate of $4 billion. That surplus is what the U.S. must rely on to finance foreign aid and the cost of the Viet Nam war, both of which put hundreds of millions...
Apart from inflation at home, which seemed to preoccupy Washington last week, the U.S.'s most stubborn economic problem of 1966 is proving to be its eight-year-old balance of payments deficit. Directly or indirectly, that deficit-the excess of dollars spent abroad over dollars earned there-has already helped stall negotiations for world monetary reform, caused U.S. corporations to invade the European market for dollar bonds, prompted Charles de Gaulle to keep cashing in France's dollars for U.S. gold at a $33 million-a-month clip. Last week the Administration got more bad news: imports...
Ivanov is also a man driven to suicide, and suicide is inexplicable without desperation and savagery. An excess of underplaying, or more charitably, a style of ironic detachment, cannot explain a man's putting a bullet through his head...