Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Firms whose customers are difficult to identify-department stores and gas stations, for example-will be required to make restitution of a more theoretical sort. Instead of actually paying out refunds, says Grayson, they will be forced to "disgorge" excess profits in the form of lower prices-low enough to balance out the original overcharges. Grayson's choice of metaphor was unhappy, since the first products to which it applied were the sandwiches, French fries and other short-order items served up at F.W. Woolworth lunch counters. Their managers had violated the rules by raising prices without obtaining advance...
...treble damages. Price Commission staff members are conferring with the Justice Department about ways of getting such damages repaid to consumers without forcing them to sue. Last week, for the first time, the commission ordered a company to lower its prices by an amount triple the sum of its "excess" profits. The accused profiteer was Godfrey Co., a food distributor headquartered in Waukesha, Wis., with annual sales of $126 million. Godfrey's troubles stemmed partly from the fact that its fiscal year ended in March: the commission figures that only a full-year profit margin can provide evidence that...
...excess of reform inspiration, Professor Gerald Smith of the University of Utah suggested that parolees have an electronic beeper surgically implanted in them so that their movements can be monitored 24 hours a day. Smith was quick to add that the installation of the device would be voluntary, and implied that the prisoner who volunteers might be granted a reduction of sentence. His rationale was that the tagging would somehow reduce the rate of recidivism and make parolees more likely to go straight...
...course, go through heavy physical and emotional strain, and they face another problem as well. The weightlessness experienced in space causes the blood, which normally tends to pool in the lower extremities, to be distributed more evenly. The body senses this redistribution, reacts as if it were carrying excess fluids and attempts to redress matters by extra urination. That causes further potassium loss...
...virtually à la Marceau, Morse captures the tremor, tenderness, coquettishness and vulnerability of a girl's first love. Morse is an enormously personable stage presence, and he knows it. The trouble is that he gratuitously does twice what he has perfectly done once. He is a child of excess and needs a sterner and more containing director than Gower Champion...