Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...size incumbent 15-year-old throws off more heat than a 100-watt bulb. Recovered and recirculated by fans, this heat from the lighting and the building's occupants has proved more than enough to keep the building warm even when the outside thermometer reads 18°. The excess is transferred to heating coils in two 12,000-gal. water tanks. When the lights go out and the human dynamos go home at night and on weekends, the hot water from the tanks is circulated throughout the building to keep it warm. As a precautionary measure, the engineers also...
...CONTROLS: Because the demands are unlikely to create boom and inflation, they will not bring forth controls on prices, credit or wages. There are no plans to impose excess-profits taxes-because they are unnecessary, and because the Administration wants to help the economy escalate...
...asked the boss for a raise and wound up being asked to take a cut. They recently petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board for a 50?-per-ticket increase in first-class fares, hoping that the raise would make up for some of the $17 million in annual excess-baggage charges that will begin to diminish this week when more generous baggage allowances go into effect.* The CAB not only turned down the proposal, but told the lines that they are in an excellent position now to reduce fares. This was the board's first significant pronouncement under Lawyer Charles...
Fresh clues pointing to causes of heart disease appear regularly, and new styles in preventive medicine follow inevitably. Researchers have urged programs of regular exercise and have warned against smoking. Doctors have spelled out the dangers of excess weight; others have worried about weight fluctuation caused by repeated crash diets. More recently, physicians have concentrated on cholesterol and other fats. Now they have tracked down another apparent culprit...
...civilian pilots, and persuaded the Saigon government to lend it the part-time services of four Vietnamese Air Force C-47 pilots. Of course, the shortages could quickly end if peace came to the country. Unlikely as that seems in the foreseeable future, the company fears being caught with excess capacity, hence the cautious policy of chartering rather than buying planes. Despite the added expenses of chartering, the company's average domestic passenger rate of 4.7? a mile is about 20% lower than equivalent rates in the U.S. Air Viet has operated in the black for four years without...