Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charge as president and chief executive three years ago last week. Y & R was also, in its 48th year, just drowsy enough to have lost $40 million in billings in the previous 16 months and just fat enough to be carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in excess overhead. The agency needed reorganization. Ney brought in new business, pared the Madison Avenue head-office staff by 25%, and led the survivors in a quick-step cadence of work, work, work...
...Brookfield the girls/women have perfected an all-in-one showering-dressing motion. This complex dance with towel involves getting undressed and into gymsuits, then dressed again without baring any excess anatomy. It is a socially sanctioned maneuver. One is expected to learn it, and put it into practice...
...charity, to relatives, godchildren, lifelong friends or faithful servants. He left his entire estate to his wife, and they agreed before his death how their possessions would be distributed after she goes. Only the duchess and her bankers know the estate's value, which is probably well in excess of $10 million. This does not include the silver services and objets d'art, the superb porcelains, the furniture and paintings. Nor does it take into account such historic treasures as the desk from which he delivered his abdication speech at Windsor Castle...
Chicago political figures tend to make brash and revealing statements which less entrenched politicians in other cities might phrase more delicately. Arlen capitalizes on this characteristic. With a single quotation, for example, he sums up the attitude of city officials across the country toward police excess. "Eddie overplayed it," he quotes one of Hanrahan's friends as saying. "He never figured that Panther raid would blow...
Each energy source has its own damaging effects. Nixon called for the construction of more nuclear power plants. However, nuclear plants entail dumping enormous quantities of excess heat into waterways and storage of dangerous nuclear waste products. Many physicists question the effectiveness of the emergency cooling systems built into reactors, and warn that with each new power plant, the chances for disastrous accident's increase...