Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fastidious distaste for fellow human beings is no hindrance to headwaiters and lighthouse keepers. It can be a positive asset for a man in the comic-novel industry. But Richard Condon, whose extraordinary talent for comedy produced The Manchurian Candidate, has developed this asset to the point of unproductive excess. In such recent novels as Mile High and The Vertical Smile he has simply refused to direct his attention toward anything that vaguely resembles a member of the human race...
...America had largely backed off from Plowshare, the program to use atomic explosions for peaceful purposes. The Soviets, by contrast, are ambitiously experimenting with nuclear explosives to quarry mineral, oil and natural gas deposits, to dig out giant water basins and even to carve new river channels to divert excess water into the Caspian Sea, which is slowly drying...
...decision, Judge Haven Parker of the Middlesex County Court ruled that Lamantea had demanded rents in excess of Cambridge Rent Control Board Specifications...
...Cambridge court has awarded three former city tenants damages in excess of $4600 for rents collected illegally by their landlord, Dominic Lamantea...
...Robert Nathan, a Democratic member of TIME'S Board of Economists, argues that the Government could safely spend more to stimulate the economy, relying on rising productivity and tough controls to hold inflation down. Republicans reply that controls are ineffective against the type of inflation that results from excess demand fueled by giant budget deficits. But Washington could make at least one move to distribute the burden of unemployment more evenly. It could crack down harder on job discrimination based on race...