Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that this is unusual; the department tries to keep the tutorial load on its members down to one thesis per advisor, while a department like History may make a fifth of instructional time cover five theses or three to four junior tutees. The department is bottom-heavy, with an excess of junior members, and it would be difficult to increase the instructional staff...
Exemption of the MTA from local taxation "unwisely" removed pressure on that group to sell off its excess land. "Most of this property, if wisely sold, could revert to the tax column of the City," Curry wrote...
...Excess Capacity. At General Electric, Chairman Ralph J. Cordiner blamed excess capacity and price cutting in the electrical industry for G.E.'s drop in fourth-quarter profits from $1.03 per share in 1959 to 36? last year. The year's earnings were off a sizable 29% ($2.26 per share v. $3.19), even though G.E. shipped a greater volume of goods than ever before...
Permit me to direct your attention to a situation which affects at least ninety per cent of the student body...I refer to the heating and ventilating of Upper Widener. With a conscientiousness altogether in excess of the results achieved, the authorities or powers that be maintain throughout the library a temperature of seventyeight degrees Fahrenhelt. This every one knows is ten degress more than the maximum for comfortable living. Why it is considered permissible in the library I cannot imagine. Yet the fact remains...
...body for which it was built." The fat man has trouble buying life insurance or has to pay higher premiums. He has-for unclear reasons-a 25% higher death rate from cancer. He is particularly vulnerable to diabetes. He may find even moderate physical exertion uncomfortable, because excess body fat hampers his breathing and restricts his muscular movement...