Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blue stars, and he found that a number of them seemed to be "interlopers" among the quasars. Those closest to earth, he discovered, are the familiar blue stars. But some of those fainter than 14.5 magnitude are remarkably similar to quasars. When photographed with blue filters, they show an excess of ultraviolet energy, which is a characteristic of quasars...
...Libby and his colleagues peeled the annual rings of wood from the trunk of an Arizona Douglas fir. The rings formed in 1909, one year after the explosion, showed a small but unmistakable excess of radioactivity. This indicates, say the authors guardedly, that about one-seventh of the energy in the Siberian explosion came from antimatter...
Died. Horatius Albarda, 61, president of Royal Dutch Airlines, fourth among international carriers, an Amsterdam lawyer who took over the floundering, top-heavy company in 1963, cut losses from $21 million to $4,000,000 last year by pruning away 4,000 excess employees, restoring Far East service, eliminating old pistons and going for jets; of injuries sustained when the twin-engine Beechcraft in which he was a passenger crashed during a storm near St. Moritz, Switzerland, also killing his wife and the two pilots...
...substantials" of the society. Much depends upon how radical a reform Pope Paul will tolerate. Although last year he urged a convention of religious superiors to keep abreast of the Council, his address to the delegates was a quite traditional plea to combat atheism and avoid "indulging to excess in the novelties...
Cheaper TV. Though such higher prices may irk businessmen, the important fact is that they have not been passed on. Rising productivity that cuts costs, excess manufacturing capacity (now disappearing) and old-fashioned competition for markets have combined to keep the surge in prices of materials from spreading. In addition, the threat of losing markets to foreign imports and the increasing availability of substitute materials have kept a firm lid on certain crucial industrial prices. The average prices of finished steel are close to their 1959 levels, and the prices of some building materials have recently dipped...