Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Interior, announced termination of the helium contracts within 60 days. But three of the contractors obtained a federal court order forcing the Government to continue buying helium "until further notice." Last week the Government appealed the decision. But until the case is tried, it must keep on squirting excess helium into that big hole in the ground in Texas-and pumping dollars into the developers' pockets...
Contrasting their personalities, Carrie Nye says: "I honestly don't think Dick has an insecure bone in his body. He's a balanced man. I do things to excess. I am volatile and temperamental, and Dick is not. He's reasonable. It bothers him and me the way people always have to categorize. They see him walking around with long hair and in dungarees and they think he's a hippie. Or they see him on TV in those J. Press suits and think he's Ivy League, they find out he went to Yale and immediately assume he thinks...
...when he served in the Army, he says, the average ratio was one colonel for every 3,000 men. Mansfield's point is that the U.S. military in Europe has grown top-heavy. "It is my conviction," he says, "that trimming away the fat in the form of excess supplies and headquarters will result in a leaner, more mobile and more efficient combat force." Besides, Mansfield has persistently argued "that although the deployment of American troops in Europe shows the flag and acts as a trip wire to Warsaw Pact aggression, this could be accomplished just as readily with...
...four countries was to use upward currency movement to get rid of excess dollars, which were aggravating problems of domestic inflation...
...excess of 1300 people have been arrested since April 21 in connection with antiwar demonstrations...