Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...singing about them yet, but power company officials are whistling about 130,000 long-stemmed beauties they grew in an experimental greenhouse in Sherburne County, Minn. The structure needs no fuel: excess heat from a coal-burning electricity plant near by is used to keep temperatures in the 60°-to-75° range. Hot waste water from the plant is pumped into the greenhouse through pipes buried in the soil. The sponsors of the $700,000 experiment -the Northern States Power Co., the University of Minnesota and the Environmental Protection Agency-found its potential intriguing. Along with the roses...
...quality players such as Fred Lynn, Joe Morgan, and Tom Seaver have signed multiyear contracts providing between $175,000 to $275,000 in actual annual salary. Given the tremendous revenues available to baseball franchises, these salaries are not unreasonable. Of course, other players of far less proficiency receive in excess of $100,000 per year. These men are cashing in on the owners' paranoia that all their players will desert for greener wallets. The wave they are riding will soon break when management realizes that .250 hitters are a dime a dozen, certainly not worth $150,000 per year...
...produce oil amounted to more than $25 billion. The wildly fluctuating revenues the nations receive from selling commodities on the world market are often not enough to cover their oil bills. One proposed solution: the creation of a "common fund" of $3 billion to stabilize prices by buying up excess crops and minerals that drive down prices. Carter is willing to seriously consider such an idea, as are the Europeans, but only after agreements are hammered out in advance on how to stabilize the price of each commodity. In contrast, the developing countries want the fund set up before...
...stunning new one to display: instant movies, which Polaroid is preparing to market on a limited basis in the fall after 30 years of experimenting. So Land put on a show that lived up to his own dry comment: "Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess." Each of the 3,800 shareholders present in Needham, Mass., got a chance to shoot films of jugglers, clowns and dancing girls, then see the film projected seconds later. Dubbing his new creation Polavision, Land pronounced it "a new technology to relate ourselves to life and to each other." He slipped only once...
...Spark's subtle irony is converted to heavy-handed attempts at humor. Mocking the pretentious religiosity of the nuns, Enders portrays them as hard-drinking, smoking, and cursing women. Life in the convent is by no means bacchanalian, but Jackson still insists on drinking Chateau Lafitte Rothschild to excess. And Enders assumes that it is inherently amusing to show nuns talking about "screwing" their enemies as well as the neighborhood Jesuit priests. Instead of mordant commentary, Enders employs cheap shots...