Word: excessive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...amount of the loans to Ohio students presently guaranteed by our commission is in excess of $150 million. Since 1966, the default rate in any fiscal year has never exceeded 2.51%, the lowest rate in the nation...
Another drag on the recovery probably will be a less dazzling trade performance. For 1975 the U.S. is expected to ring up a record $10 billion excess of exports over imports, v. a trade deficit of $3.1 billion in 1974. Two reasons: the recession slowed down imports, especially of oil; and American inflation, though high, was lower than in most other major industrial countries, increasing the competitiveness of made-in-U.S. products abroad. Next year the surplus is likely to shrink; as production revives in the U.S., the quickening tempo will pull in more imports...
...problems of increasing the representation of women and minorities here are not simple ones. Harvard's minority representation, for instance, is now in excess of the available labor pools, and increases that would go beyond these pools will require strong recruiting at all levels. In order to have more black professors, Harvard also needs to recruit black graduate students and to make every effort to attract tenured black scholars from other institutions. It is the sort of thing that builds on itself: as the University hires more blacks in high position, it becomes perceived as a better place for blacks...
Czech Director Jan Kadar (The Shop on Main Street) handles all his vignettes dryly, distantly, without the slightest excess of emotion. Normally such discipline, especially in an age of over wrought movies, would be a matter for applause. In a film that is so predictable, however, a little excess is called for. We need to feel a touch of genuine desperation in this slum or of craziness in the behavior of its inhabitants. Some how the Duddy Kravitz ambience has been infused with the spirit of Walton's Mountain, and the result is a bland respectability−safe, pleasant...
During these same years a Harvard coach noticed that on rainy days his players' uniforms would soak up 20-30 pounds in excess water. Someone suggested leather outfits, and a Boston tailor went to work. Harvard surprised the Elis by appearing at the 1893 game in new waterproof uniforms, much to the displeasure of Yale all-American "Pudge" Heffelfinger '93, who was attending his first game as a recent alumnus. "Pudge," thinking the leather had been employed solely to prevent those Harvard sissies from bodily harm, bounded onto the field soon after the game had started and began tearing uniforms...