Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important sense, last year's profits were the worst in a quarter century. Profit margins on sales were only 5%, down from 5.8% in 1969. They were the lowest margins in any Citibank survey since 1945-a year of war, price controls and excess-profits taxes. U.S. industry has been in a profit squeeze since late 1965 because inflation has raised its operating costs faster than its selling prices...
France: An Excess of Greed...
...nearly 350 daily flights canceled, the lockout is costing the airlines a combined $1.8 million daily in operating losses. The flight crews have not found much sympathy from either public or press. Commented Le Monde: "The pilots have an excellent image. Do they have to spoil it through an excess of greed?" What most bothers French aviation men is the possibility that a prolonged suspension will eat up reserves earmarked for such new purchases as the Boeing 747 and the Franco-British Concorde...
...price of new weapons, Pennsylvania Representative William S. Moorhead estimates that the ultimate outlay would run between $161 billion and $176 billion. Whatever the final cost, taxpayers and Congress have a right to be reassured that the money is to be spent with adequate safeguards against waste and excess profits...
...recorded a total loss in excess of $50.000 during the last two years. As a result, expansion has been impossible...