Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potentially dangerous female critic, he went off with her for a weekend on Staten Island, where he did all the chores for a family of five. Impossible as it may seem, the show was amusing, but only because Tony Franciosa, as the publisher, delivered a winning personality far in excess of the requirements of the script, and Jack Soo, who looks like Robert Mitchum, was irresistible as his Chinese manservant, who talks hip and fancies the ponies...
...estimated gain of 13% (to $44.2 billion) in spending for new plant and equipment this year, even though much of this goes into modernization rather than straight-out additions to capacity. Papermakers have boosted capital investment by 30% above last year's level, and the chemical industry, despite excess capacity, has massive expansion underway to provide the new production lines required by new products. All this building helps to lessen the pressures on capacity and, because of the cost-cutting automation that goes with it these days, is good insurance against a profit squeeze that some economists fear...
...young man looking for employment with a difference at a salary well in excess of ? 100 per month should telephone 838-5202/3 during business hours. Employment initially offered for 6 months. Immediate start...
...half a glass of water will probably do no harm. But a teaspoonful of bicarb in half a glass of water is enough to neutralize highly acid stomach contents, with some bicarb left over. The leftover can be dangerous, particularly to a person with an unsuspected kidney ailment. The excess bicarb is absorbed into the bloodstream through the walls of the small bowel, causing excessive alkalinity in the blood. It is the kidneys' job to remove this excess, but diseased kidneys may not be up to it, introducing the danger of death from alkalosis...
Helping Steak. Nearly all physicians now avoid sodium bicarbonate. The most up-to-date thinkers among them are coming to the conclusion that the best neutralizer for excess stomach acid is nature's neutralizer-food. They prescribe small meals about every three hours. It matters little, they say, what the ulcer patient eats-he may have steak and French fries with catchup and a cucumber salad with vinegar dressing-provided only that he eats a little at a time and often. The tide has turned against the insipid Sippy diet of milk and light cream: doctors are beginning...