Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...necessary. In a process much faster than the original method, which used sunlight, an intense light source burns the outline of the positive into the screen, which has been coated with a light sensitive emulsion. The area covered by the positive stays soft, allowing the ink to penetrate it. Excess emulsion is hosed off, and the ink is squeegeed through the screen onto T-shirts which then pass through a dryer...
Some farmers are planning to feed some of the excess wheat to livestock. But that would further lower the price of corn, the principal animal feed, by reducing demand. Farmers have planted almost 84 million acres of corn, about the same as last year, when they grew a record 6.2 billion bu. Growers are concerned that the huge crop will cause corn prices to fall well below their current level of $2.35 per bu., which is nearly 20% lower than last year's price. Of all the nation's farmers, the best off are the growers of soybeans...
...futures were set 25 years ago, and that they had no idea of the changes in values, customs and ideals they would face. He had no idea then either that he would be 40 pounds overweight with soaring cholesterol levels that would motivate him to start jogging, lose the excess weight and successfully complete the 26-mile Boston Marathon last April...
...Beth had been warned about the school's imbalanced sex ratio. She had purposefully chosen a coed school but was still a little wary of the strains the ratio placed on both the men and the women here. But she also had to admit the thought of all those excess men sounded awfully nice after four years in a small, rural high school. And Jeff's conversation made her even more optimistic. Sure the system was rotten but she felt pretty confident she-d be able to enjoy herself here...
...gasoline at the pump or gas-guzzling cars at the factory. Instead, the Republicans want federal price controls removed from all gas and oil when a "true world price for energy resources emerges." Until then, the G.O.P. Senators advocate a transition period in which Congress must ensure "that any excess energy profits are reinvested by the energy industry to find and produce yet more energy"-or taxed, with revenue returning to the consumer. 2) The Republican program pushes nuclear power more than the Carter plan. It calls for research into the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, continued development...