Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pampas 160 miles west of Buenos Aires. "Couldn't they stay up longer if they had engines?'' They could indeed. But to the 63 competitors from 23 nations who gathered in Junin, Argentina, for last week's world soaring championships, engines are just excess weight, and flying a conventional airplane is about as exciting as riding a subway to work. To the sailplaner, the good things in life are a cramped cockpit, a buoyant wing, the song of the wind, and unending miles...
...will start a gradual descent by applying forward pressure on your stick. Leave your power and your airspeed remain the same in the descent. Just come on in at no [m.p.h.] and plan your descent so that you aim right for the end of the runway without building up excess speed...
...deduct 27½% of the gross income from an oil property in figuring his tax-and he can keep doing that even after he has recovered his capital outlays. "It's the only law I can think of," says one Treasury source, "that allows a recovery in excess of the investment." Similar allowances apply to natural gas and, at lower rates, to most kinds of mineral deposits. Last week a federal judge in Texas ruled that farmers who draw water from wells on their own land are entitled to a depletion allowance...
...material. These clutch the dyes as they arrive and form them into a tough, many-colored surface that reproduces the colored image focused by the camera's lens. The picture needs no further treatment. Its blues are sometimes slightly greenish at first, but after a few moments the excess green tint disappears permanently...
Conversation Piece. Among the nation's three largest male wigmakers are Louis Feder, Taylor Topper, and Squires for Men. All have branches or outlets across the country, and all currently boast an annual volume well in excess of $1,000,000. Says one pleased Squires manager: "It used to be not too many years ago that the woman who dyed her hair was considered 'fast.' Now hair tinting by women is perfectly acceptable, and the same is happening with regard to toupees." The company requires that all branch managers must be balding: "You have to be able...