Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford: Higher taxes and tariffs on imported and domestic crude oil, natural gas and imported petroleum products. In addition, all domestic oil and gas would be freed of price controls, and Congress would be asked to approve an excess-profits tax on windfall earnings of oil and gas companies. Clean-air laws would also be weakened to permit more coal to be burned, especially by electric utilities...
...customers to go along with the classier image it was trying to create when the recession arrived; sales dropped, unsold goods piled up-and so did Grant's interest bills. In 1973 alone, Grant's interest costs jumped from $21 million to $51 million. To unload its excess goods, Grants slashed prices by as much as 50% in pre-Christmas sales last month; as a result, total sales fell by a painful 5% in dollar terms in 1974. When the company was unable to meet a $40 million payment on a $600 million short-term loan...
...leaden prose in England had dulled readers' capacity for independent thought. Writing immediately after World War II, when he saw writers increasingly give themselves over to the dogmas of newly-potent ideologies, Orwell wrote that "if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. "The use of tired metaphors, excess words, Latinate nouns, meaningless, bombastic phrases--all led to a "reduced state of consciousness," which was "favorable to political conformity." Only by using concrete, original, and simple sentences could the writer let the meaning choose the word--rather than the other way around--and avoid language that "anaesthetizes a portion...
Doubled Prices. The shortages are especially irksome to drillers because Washington has made domestic-oil exploration more attractive than it has been at any tune in years. Under the two-tier oil price system inaugurated in September 1973, "new" oil-production in excess of a 1972 base period-can be sold at the world price, now about $11 per bbl. That is more than double the limit of $5.25 per bbl. allowed on "old" oil produced within the base level...
...their wounded fellows; two fin whales spotted off Canada, for example, supported a harpooned brother on their flukes for five days. In aquariums, they cooperate with-and sometimes outthink-their captors. One group of dolphins being rewarded with fish ate until sated, then continued to perform while piling the excess fish on the pool bottom. When they got bored, they simply gave the fish back to the experimenters...