Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of the pattern of peptic ulcer. Then the trouble is not a simple backup of the evening's Scotch, steak and potato but a too-free flow of hydrochloric acid and other digestive juices from the stomach walls into the stomach itself and the duodenum. The excess juices find a vulnerable spot in the stomach wall or duodenum and, in effect, digest that. The result is an ulcer...
Coquettish Hovering. A main force behind the profit swell is U.S. industry's increasing use of excess capacity as the economy expands, a movement that gradually lowers production costs. Management also knows better than ever before how to wield the two most powerful tools in its possession: automation and cost control. A growing use of computers has made possible more exhaustive market research, closer control of inventories and production, and a greater awareness of a company's potential. Cost consciousness has become so strong in industry that businessmen are much readier than formerly to eliminate unprofitable parts...
...long, dozens of boat companies were building them. The supply of fiber glass got so scarce that it had to be allocated while the firms rushed new production facilities. Unfortunately, many of the boat builders were inexperienced and undercapitalized; when they floundered, the fiber glass companies were left with excess capacity, were forced to make price cuts. This year, however, the rising demand for fiber glass in new products has finally led to price increases. Owens-Corning's first-half earnings of $8.2 million on sales of $139 million, announced this week, are 62% better than last year...
...time, was accurately reporting the uneventful and orderly breakup of the crowd. Back on NBC, David Brinkley went on: "Three-fourths of the New York delegation has walked out." Outside the hall, Sander Vanocur then explained that Keating may have been miffed by Goldwater's line about " 'excess being no vice' "-misquoting Goldwater and misrepresenting Keating. Keating's press secretary later reported that the Senator was "stunned" at all this. He merely left when the speech was over, hoping to beat most of the crowd, which...
...figure in planning the economic program being drawn up for 1965 and beyond. He helped draw up, with Walter Heller, the revised stand-by tax-cutting power the President will probably ask Congress to approve as an anti-cyclical weapon, is working on a new scheme to funnel excess federal revenues back to the states whenever a surplus is generated. His strong feeling that federal spending is too cumbersome to effect short-range control of the economy will probably sway Johnson away from the stand-by public works and other spending devices that were favored by the Kennedy Administration. When...