Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Those whose Administration-support level has been in excess of 80%, regardless of the marginality of their races...
Carter further insisted that a tax cut of $25 billion, effective Oct. 1, is needed to create jobs, and that it "would not be inflationary." Since only 82% of the nation's production capacity is being used, he asserted, inflation is not being caused by the excess demand that would be aggravated by big budget deficits, but rather by "a cycle of wage increases, price increases that kind of grow on one another." Within hours, he had a congressional answer of sorts: in a preliminary vote on the budget for fiscal 1979, the Senate decided...
...There are only two emotions in Wall Street: fear and greed. For most of 1977, we had an excess of fear. The last few days, greed has come back with a vengeance." -William M. LeFevre, vice president of Granger & Co., Manhattan brokers...
Just now, Travolta holds the winning hand; or most of it, anyhow. There is no wild card. No overheated tales of profligacy and indulgence. No seamy revelations. The usual insinuations, to be sure, but no backstairs gossip that is verifiable, no sagas of ruinous excess and careening self-destruction. Superstars very often provide their own portfolio of legends to join the ones fashioned for the screen: the abandon of Brando, the hipster brashness of James Dean. If the material isn't available, then the superstars get tagged with it?De Niro is alleged to be Garboesque, Pacino sullen and distant...
...like carpeting for the ears. "We would write rock songs-good ones-and they'd say, 'That's nice, where's the ballads?' " Robin remembers. "That was all they wanted." The boys were also suffering from the aftershocks of sudden success. They drank to excess, indulged in lots of speed, lived crazy and spent big. "There was a time," recalls Barry, "when I could walk out the front door and every car to the end of the street was mine, from the white Rolls at the front door to the Alpha at the corner." Maurice...