Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also advocated a deconcentration of monopolized industries through stronger enforcement of the antitrust laws. "Some of the biggest price hikes allowed by the Price Commission have been for industries that were already charging far in excess of legitimate competitive returns due to their monopoly position." McGovern said...
...More opportunity to work for extra money. At present, recipients under 72 lose $1 of benefits for every $2 they earn in excess of $1,680 a year. This cutoff point might be raised quite justifiably to $2,000 or $2,400. After all, retired people who have been able to accumulate stocks and bonds are not penalized for collecting dividends and interest in addition to Social Security payments...
...Barbra Streisand, her macaw manner and self-congratulatory cuteness are displayed here to the usual excess...
Interior's most important accomplishments as he sees them: the $156 million federal acquisition of land in Florida's Big Cypress Swamp, addition of 40 million acres of excess federal property to the national park system, new urban-oriented parks like Gateway East and Gateway West, and an end to the use of predator poisons on public lands...
...wealth of period references--the tinkly, jarring music of Kurt Weill, the angular, fantastic interiors of Dr. Caligari, the smoky torch songs of Blue Angel, and the bloated Bacchanites of George Grosz. In fact, his effects are occasionally so persuasive as to be claustrophobic--particularly when you add the excess of close-ups Fosse uses to tell his story...