Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal Reserve started keeping count, 53 foreign banks owned assets of $23 billion in the U.S. By last year's end, the number of overseas banks with U.S. operations had more than doubled and their assets more than tripled, to $76 billion, a rate of growth far in excess of the U.S. banking industry. In New York and California, the nation's major money centers, commercial and industrial loans by foreign banks are now about a third as great as those by large local banks. Most foreign banks dealing with the public still cluster in and around...
Luck actually has very little to do with the industry's cozy stance. Until 1975 the biggest producers acted as if it was more important to expand capacity than to make money. Even though the Government stood ready to buy aluminum for its strategic stockpile, an excess supply overhung the market, depressing prices. As Duncan Campbell, vice president of Montreal-based Alcan, which sells more than a quarter of its production in the U.S., puts it, "We went through our garden of Gethsemane in most of the 1970s basically because of oversupply. We were gouging each other...
Using life insurance statistics showing that for every pound of excess weight there is a loss in life expectancy of one month, Cohen went on to estimate the consequences of drinking cans or bottles of ordinary soda pop (which contain about 100 calories, v. no calories for the diet soda). The results of all these comparative calculations were decidedly in favor of the saccharin-spiked drinks. Says Cohen: "If all other things were unchanged, the substitution of diet for nondiet drinks would increase life expectancy by 100 times more than the cancer risk reduced...
...hours before dawn, turning out his strange songs and working occasionally on "my long-boasted-about but seldom-heard symphony"-all on the Steinway concert grand that stands in the living room of his modest Los Angeles house. Zevon seems to be living out a myth of ruinous romantic excess that is both self-perpetuating and self-destructive. "F. Scott Fitzevon," some friends call him. Jokes his mentor, Jackson Browne, best of all the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriters, who has taken a strong hand in the production of both Zevon albums: "There's part of Warren that nobody...
...twists in the plot to sustain suspense despite these superficial characterizations. Like the television show Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Demme uses stereotypes self-consciously, parodying them at the same time that he favors them to enact his story. Demme only occasionally falters on the tight-wire between moderation and excess, when he over-ambitiously turns on the small-town ideology of the American Dream. Stereotyping works well as a comic device; it becomes banal as a harbinger of a serious message. Summarizing Demme's position, Papa Thermodyne, a senile, retired trucker says: "This country promises everything. What does it give...