Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the budget of the entire Athletic Department is in excess of $1 million, this figure includes all 17 intercollegiate sports, the intramural program, plus all administrative and upkeep costs. Football receives its due allotment from this figure, but the total is far below Dodd's estimate...
...President had his own suggestion about how to raise exports: cut prices. Europe does well in many export areas, he said, "because European producers, unlike American producers, respond to excess capacity by reducing prices in order to maintain production, rather than reducing production to maintain prices...
...later years, his youthful infatuation with the flamboyant Fauves embarrassed him as a childish excess. In 1908 Braque was drawn to fragment his vision in the manner that became known as Cubism, after seeing Picasso's panorama of naked prostitutes, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Their fractured postures impelled Braque to a further dissection of nature. He and Picasso, working together, began turning out canvases so similar that in later years they could not recall which of them had painted what. In 1912 Braque invented the paper collage, in which scraps of newsprint and ticket stubs were glued onto...
Indeed an inaccurate allegation has been made which may impugn my motives. The truth is that the Ngo Dinh Diem government did not expropriate any property of mine by application of its land reform of 1956. By that time most of the land I had in excess of the allowed 247 acres had been abandoned by me and even by the peasants because of insecurity in that area of the province of Rach-Gia during the long Indo-Chinese war of 1946-54. This can be checked at the Department of Land Reform in Saigon and will give an idea...
...companies, of course, intend to stick basically to refining and selling petroleum products. But since the early 1950s, the $48 billion oil industry, suffering from a profit squeeze, has gone questing for new sources of earnings. The industry got tangled in excess refining capacity built up during the Korean war. Its foreign operations have sometimes suffered from such cut-price competitors as the Russians, and intense competitiveness at home has brought on gasoline price wars in some areas. Compact cars drink less gasoline, and have helped to reduce the annual rise in gasoline sales from...