Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Similarly, while the Young Democrats wither in apathy, the HYRC's major burden is its gold; with membership twice that of five years ago, the Executive Committee is now considering investing its excess revenue in speculative stocks. In an abortive revolt against the "machine at the annual election in March the main complaint of the rebels was that the club leaders had in effect fulfilled their agencies too well and too efficiently. "We've been terrorized and sherryized," was the wail...
...wild regions, the country's lumber, mining, and grazing needs can easily be met by other lands now open to commercial use. In 1961 commercial tracts in the national forest grew about one billion more board feet of lumber than was cut. Existing mines are able to produce excess supplies of almost all indigenous metals and minerals. Finally, an Interior Department study has shown that proper management of present grazing lands could yield in fifty years a 250% increase of forage...
...located at Purdue, "implements committee decisions and functions as a catalyst." As a "kind of communications center," the CIC's function, as stated in the 1962 Annual Report, is "to aid member universities in improving educational and public services by adding strength to strength, as well as to avoid excess costs by minimizing duplication." An administrative agency, the CIC does not seek to usurp power, for the member schools remain autonomous: a majority cannot dictate to any one university, and all projects are voluntary...
...tropic-bound G.I., but a 34-year-old Michigan woman whose high blood pressure (170 over 100) was accompanied by unusual features. She had muscular weakness and cramps, had to drink and urinate frequently; her low-salt sweat and abysmally low level of potassium in the blood indicated an excess of aldosterone. A medical team traced her trouble to a small tumor on her right adrenal gland, which was pumping out a flood of aldosterone although there was no excess of other adrenal hormones. Surgeons removed her tumor, and now, eight years later, the woman is well, with her blood...
...says Dr. Conn, "is anybody's guess." They run the gamut from those with strikingly severe symptoms to those detected only by chance chemical tests. And the picture is complicated because some victims of a rare, rapidly progressive and fatal form of high blood pressure develop an aldosterone excess apparently as an effect, rather than a cause, of their original disease. But whatever the statistics, the volunteers who pedaled themselves silly on Dr. Conn's exercise bicycles have a good deal to show for their sweat. At least 70% of aldosterone-tumor patients are being cured by surgery...