Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Price-fixing may be useful when strong corporations and strong unions with big wages are pushing up the prices, but it has no point whatsoever when the prices are being raised by an excess of demand. As I see it, the meat crisis is the result of comprehensive mismanagement by the Nixon administration. It is still to be corrected by the former dean of the Harvard faculty....Crops have been bad this year, but no one should blame anything on God as long as you have the Nixon administration." --John Kenneth Galbraith, one of several economists commenting on the meat...
Nelson said that last year's experience gave no reason to think that this year's 30-student excess will dissipate. She explained that last Fall no one took a leave of absence, so the ten economy doubles set up to deal with the "temporary" overcrowding remained intact until the Spring term...
...seemed that Japan and South Korea had the perfect relationship. The Koreans had an economy thirsty for investments, the Japanese had an excess of foreign currency built up by their booming export trade. Over the years Japanese have edged out Americans as Korea's No. 1 investor, with more than $326 million in private investments. Then came the mysterious kidnaping last month in Tokyo of South Korean Opposition Leader Dae Jung Kim. Although Kim was released in Seoul five days after being abducted, many Japanese are convinced that South Korean President Chung Hee Park's CIA masterminded...
...General Accounting Of ice revealed last week that the Pentagon, while proudly remaining within its handsome public-relations budget of $28 million a year, has actually been spending millions more on such p.r. projects as formation-flying teams, marching bands, military museums and base tours. It estimated the excess spending at $24.5 million during fiscal 1972, and the outlays have probably not declined since then. Ostensibly aimed at winning the favor of taxpayers and Congress, the public-relations expenditures seem to have had little effect. Two weeks ago the Senate Armed Services Committee slashed $100 million from the Air Force...
...also not funny enough to make it as a comedy. Director Kramer and Writer Norman attempt to jerk it to life with sadism (Dunaway beaten almost to death by Palance's mob), vulgarity (Scott urinating on Palance's boots during one of their confrontations) and an excess of bawdy language. But the prissy and self-consciously liberal Kramer seems, in this attempt at lustiness, rather like a college chaplain deliberately swearing in order to seem like one of the boys; you don't believe what you're hearing, and you end up feeling rather sorry about...