Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rent control is not the answer to the avaricious increasing of rents by landlords. In my opinion, the only cure, excepting a serious recession, for our galloping inflation is an excess profits...
...services. Since then the bill has increased by 429%. This year the total is expected to reach $206 billion, or 9.1% of the gross national product. The White House estimates that at the present rate of increase, medical costs will double every five years, a rise far in excess of inflation. Says Dr. Richard Corlin, president of the Los Angeles County Medical Association, with only mild hyperbole: "We are now in a position to spend the entire national bud get on medical tests and procedures...
...economy that has forced 500,000 beer-loving, "guest workers" from Turkey and other countries to return home. Germans are also increasingly preoccupied with physical fitness, and the full belly that was once regarded as a sign of a healthy, jovial temperament is now seen as a sign of excess...
...dramatizes the banalities of their domestic life. John's premarital flings with other women (including a French floozy who seems to have stepped out of Irma La Douce) get more screen time than the Ervin hearings. The Deans' bouts with alcohol are presented with the florid excess of an old Hollywood weeper like /'// Cry Tomorrow...
...have cause to worry. Many of our nuclear power plants were designed and constructed by corporate decision makers who knew they didn't have to give full weight to risks of damage in excess of $500 million. Many nuclear power plant licenses were approved at hearings which lacked robust and vigorous inquiry...