Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Feeding back "excess "profits...
...months through last January, Sears increased prices at an annual pace of 4.2%, well over the 3.2% allowed it by COWPS. The rollback is designed to bring the company into line with the Government's guidepost for the year and feed back to the public any "excess" profits. About 20% of Sears' business is catalogue sales, and the company will automatically send refunds to any customers who mail in too much money. Sears also will make "selective'' price reductions in its stores...
Since Congress increasingly favors some sort of excess profits tax on the industry, a number of companies are coming around to a grudging acceptance of the idea, just as long as the levy would contain a so-called plowback provision that would permit them to reduce windfall taxes by investing the money in exploration. Congress could well go along with a plowback. Though Carter has attacked the scheme as a loophole "that you can sail an oil tanker through," he may find that without a plowback he will have real trouble getting...
...corporate rate of 46%, which is what they are intended to do, the credits sometimes let companies pay no taxes at all on their foreign profits. The basic reason: if a company has to pay taxes of more than 46% on its profits in a foreign country, the excess is counted as a credit. Then the company can use the credit to reduce or even totally wipe out income taxes owed...
Mariel Hemingway as Allen's 17-year-old lover suffers the same verbal excess. When Allen tells her he has found another woman, she responds, "We have laughs together. We have good times. Your concerns are my concerns. We have good sex." The curtain of the drama rips to reveal a scriptwriter desperately hanging more significance on the lines than they can handle...