Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trees, the sun. The South is mediocrity, violence, boosterism, glorified ignorance. It is friendliness and a joy in simple pleasures -and simple ideas. It is row upon row of churches, Maginot-like bastions against the Forces of Darkness. It is the Darkness as well: a lust for guilty, drunken excess. And, perhaps most memorably, the South is sudden visions of Eden, like crossing the Black Warrior River in Alabama at dusk and looking down to see the Peaceable Kingdom, painted in gold and rust...
These groups have often warred with Stare because he has prominently and repeatedly pooh-poohed warnings about excess sugar consumption in the United States, contradicting, the report says, "one of the few accepted nutritional principles, namely, that Americans eat far too much sugar." In an interview published in January 1974, for example, Stare said that most people could healthily double their daily sugar intake. Stare's defense of food additives has similarly riled those who argue that many of the chemicals are unsafe...
...against 9.3%. But surprisingly few of the XYYs' offenses involved aggression. The research team's conclusions: the XYY abnormality is likely to lead to lower intelligence and perhaps to some lawbreaking, usually petty. But whatever the offenses, they do not appear to result from a simple excess of aggression...
...attacks on profits are more rhetorical than real. No excess-profits tax has been levied on U.S. corporations since the Korean War. In fact, the regular federal tax on corporate profits has been lowered over the past three years from 52% to 48%. Hardly anyone questions the basic right of business to make some profit. The question has been, how much...
...left after taxes are either paid out as dividends to stockholders ($32.1 billion in 1975) or reinvested in the business ($33.2 billion). Most of those profits that are turned into dividend checks are then taxed a second time, as income, when they reach the shareholders' mailboxes-an excess that Democratic Presidential Candidate Jimmy Carter says he disapproves...