Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion.* Brusquely dismissing the plea of "military secrecy," which has long been used to conceal the exact extent of stockpiling operations. Kennedy said that stockpiles now contain almost twice as much material as the Pentagon assumes the U.S. would need for a three-year war. He estimated that the excess supply of nickel alone was worth $103 million, the excess supply of aluminum another $347 million...
...Digest opened its U.S. edition to advertising, fielded orders for 1,107 pages within two weeks of the announcement. Last year, without benefit of liquor or tobacco ads, which it scorns in the U.S. edition, the Digest's gross ad revenue was $65 million. It also collected in excess of $60 million in circulation revenue. From time to time, the parent Digest has launched prosperous offspring, among them the Reader's Digest Condensed Book Club, biggest in the U.S., and last year it acquired a record club that sold some $20 million worth of platters. From all sources...
...Excess Deaths." But immunity is valid only against strains of flu previously contracted. So flu vaccine is a shotgun prescription containing three strains of type A and one of type B. It is rated 60%-75% effective against flu of any kind. PHS recommends vaccination for pregnant women, for diabetics, for all people over 65. and for those of any age with known disease of the heart, lungs or kidneys...
...itself is rarely the direct cause of death, but it may damage the lungs so that pneumonia develops. In an already weakened patient, this may prove incurable. In plotting flu's ravages, PHS tallies all "excess deaths" (above normal for the city and season) in 108 U.S. cities, and checks to see whether the peaks coincide with a rash of "influenza-pneumonia" entries on death certificates. So far, throughout the U.S.. there have been few reports of such "excess deaths...
...Giesler was soon cutting his eyeteeth in some toweringly strange trials. Murders were a specialty, and in all, Giesler handled more than 70 murder cases over the years. Not one of his clients was executed, not even Bugsy Siegel, the excess-personnel man at Murder, Inc. And when Norman Selby, the fighter known as Kid McCoy, * was charged with the murder of his mistress, Giesler got a verdict of manslaughter even though Selby had earlier insisted to the police that he was guilty. Giesler's explanation of the confession: the Kid was so depressed that he wanted...