Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's no excess baggage in Cruelty's lines. If anything, there's a lack of finesse--subtlty could get across some of Ai's scenarios even more powerfully than the raw, hard-hitting stuff that leaves you numb and bewildered...
...number of warheads in the strategic inventory increased, the targeters found themselves running out of assured destruction targets. Once all the population and industrial centers were covered, the targeters found themselves with excess warheads. As the surplus continued to grow, there was nothing left to do but target military installations, including missile fields. So while the theoreticians continued their great and noisy debate, the technicians quietly gave us the beginnings of a counterforce capability. No policy decision was ever made in favor of counterforce, but the capability continued to grow. The forces began to determine the strategy; the tail began...
There are few blockades for inflation in the U.S. One traditional means of control is antitrust laws to break up concentrated industry and to create price competition. But Nixon's intervention to stop an antitrust action against ITT and the recent Congressional defeat of excess profits taxes upon oil companies leave little doubt that such an attack on monopoly would be impossible, given the present degree of business influence upon the government...
...just how much of the profits should be considered "excess"? A cynical definition is that excess profits are whatever a legislature chooses to call by that name. Joseph Pechman, a tax expert and member of TIME'S Board of Economists, notes: "There is no scientific way to measure it. What you do is designate a time period for 'normal' profits and tax the excess over that...
...President also asked Congress to forget the Emergency Energy Act that got bogged down before the Christmas recess because of disagreement over taxing oil companies' "excess profits." Instead, Nixon wants Congress to whip through a "basic bill" that would make the Administration's fuel-allocation and conservation measures legally binding. Energy Chief William E. Simon is afraid that unless these measures are quickly made mandatory, consumers will slacken their so far successful conservation efforts, particularly if the Arab oil flow resumes. Yet in its present mood of hostility to oil companies, Congress will almost certainly ignore the President...