Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several years ago, major companies began to get rid of their excess gasoline by wholesaling it to private-brand operators, who then underpriced the big firms' stations by 2? or 3? per gal. The independents began to grab off 20% of the business in some areas. Last year, to protect their own stations, Gulf introduced its "subregular" Gulftane, and Sun brought out its Blue Sunoco 190, which compete directly with the independents' prices. Other major oil companies also cut prices, financed the local fights by keeping prices high at their stations on superhighways...
...wage pause" ordered by the Macmillan government a year ago has helped Britain to hold wage increases to 4.6% and to spur British exports to the Common Market countries, where wages are increasing much faster. Britain's increase in productivity, however, is a poor 2^%, and companies with excess capacity find little incentive to expand. Managers are also delaying decisions to spend until they learn whether Britain will get into the Common Market. (If Britain does not, her businessmen will probably decide to build plants on the Continent.) France is just beginning to feel the slowdown. Industrial production...
...with a sick romantic energy that Honoré de Balzac, who wrote the tale (La Fille aux Yeux d'Or) on which the film is based, would surely have admired. Like the story the film has style, the grand fantastic style in which, as in a jungle, excess exceeds excess and every thing is reconciled in riot. Setting, lighting, cutting, acting: all are overdone to a degree - but to the same degree. The elements of the film are in phase; its world is impossible but consistent, therefore credible...
...electrical charge picked up when a plane passes through certain kinds of rain or snow storms. These charges, pilots found, interfered with radio communication. Since electricity tends to concentrate itself on pointed surfaces, such as radio antennas, the investigators suggested the pigtails as a harmless discharge point for any excess charge...
...million collecting properties that now include not only his newspapers but three radio stations, six TV stations and two magazine publishing firms, a 66% interest in Conde Nast and Street & Smith. By conservative estimate, these possessions are worth $250 million today. They produce a handsome annual gross in excess of $125 million...