Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tunisia's modern-minded President Habib Bourguiba, a Moslem himself, regards Ramadan as so much cultural excess baggage. He has already officially abolished the veil in Tunisia and introduced European notions of marriage and divorce in place of Islamic laws, in which women have little or no rights. Then he set to work on Ramadan, a custom which he believes helps hold Islamic countries in "stagnation, weakness and decadence." Last year in Ramadan he imposed midnight curfew on coffeehouses and other soots where revelers congregated until dawn...
Your story clearly indicates by that the railroads' commuter service is, by and large going "steadily downhill." For those on the downhill grades I offer the following suggestion: sell rides to commuters for half fare, release brakes, and coast. Any excess kinetic energy may be converted to electric power and sold to the local power company at a modest profit...
Rescue of the Sewing Machines. Once in power, Betancourt drove across Venezuela like a bulldozer. In his first five months he signed 226 decrees that authorized everything from government redemption of pawned sewing machines to the imposition of an excess-profits tax. He slashed rent and electricity rates, ordered businesses to distribute at least 10% of their yearly profits to employees and imposed the then-radical fifty-fifty formula that guaranteed Venezuela at least half the profits of the oil companies...