Word: excessive
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...number of its annual recruitment. He commanded an elaborate network of spies who informed him minutely of the strength and movements of his adversaries. He centralized authority absolutely in himself, and his precise, ingeniously correlated orders of march gained a maneuverability for his army that was far in excess of that enjoyed by any other contemporary fighting force. For the Austerlitz campaign, he invented and applied a set of rules involving foraging, billeting, and shifting from order of march to order of battle that exemplified his methods almost perfectly...
...action has been taken in the year since the MDC proposed a pumping station and a new dam near North Station. The existing dam has no pumps and operates on a gravity principle, which means that when tides are unusually high the dam cannot be opened to discharge excess river water for fear of a back-rush of salt water. During a heavy storm, when tides are high and the river is full, there is a chance that the Charles would overflow its banks in the M.I.T. Back Bay area...
Nonetheless, U.S. holdings in foreign currency have grown by $382 million in the past five years. In ten countries, the bankroll exceeds U.S. needs for the next two years, and the excess is nearly as large in nine others. India, Pakistan and Egypt pose the biggest problem. In India alone, the U.S. holds $1 billion in rupees...
...contracts, covering some 125,000 workers, that would include wage increases of about 6%. What about me guidelines? Said Union President Jacob Potofsky: "They don't worry us." William A. Boyle, president of the United Mine Workers, said that his union would also demand wage increases in excess of the guidelines. In even more open defiance, Cornelius J. Haggerty, head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s building and construction trades department, pointed out that the guidelines have no legal sanction and, speaking on behalf of 18 building trades unions, declared that his people would pay no attention whatever...
...since 1957. The biggest reason: a $2.25 billion drop in bank loans to foreigners. Offsetting that gain, however, imports rose faster than exports, partly because of dock strikes and partly in response to the demand for goods from free-spending consumers and businessmen. Result: the U.S. trade surplus-the excess of exports over imports-shrank from $6.7 billion in 1964 to $4.8 billion last year. The trend, said Connor, remains a "very serious" problem. On top of that, Viet Nam escalation may pull $700 million of gold and dollars out of the U.S. this year as against $250 million...