Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program was having on the economy. The New York Stock Exchange's Dow Jones industrial average, which had soared to a high of 908.37 the previous week, started the week lower as Wall Street investors consolidated their gains and began to digest the possibility of an excess-profits tax; but it ended strongly at 912.75. The wholesale cost of food, industrial raw materials and manufactured goods rose .3% during the month -a seasonally adjusted rate of 8.4%, the fastest rate of increase in six months. But the increase is largely calculated from price surveys made before the freeze...
...President, however, let it be known that he still opposes an excess-profits tax and then resumed campaigning in support of his measures. Returning from a 15-day stay at the Western White House, Nixon stopped off in Chicago to speak to the milk producers association and promised that his policy would usher in "a New Prosperity" -"without inflation and without...
Ephesus is over 400 pages long and contains no fewer than 55 chapters full of encounters, imbroglios, plots. Not all of them work, and occasionally the pace slackens. The author is vulnerable to charges of excess and lack of critical judgment. One may as well try to defend reality. The only rejoinder is how vivid and how much like life the book is. The late Randall Jarrell once defined the novel as "a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it." This is a novel. · Martha Duffy
...passage from Houston to the Gulf-and in Galveston Bay that the Environmental Protection Agency openly attacked the Texas Water Quality Board last June. In a 200-page report, the EPA charged that oil and hydrocarbon residues, fecal matter and toxic metals in those waters are all grossly in excess of natural background levels...
...largely because of a slowdown in capital spending and a rise in interest rates, Japanese steelmen would suddenly encounter rough weather. In January, they revised their forecasts: no increase in production for either fiscal 1971 or 1972. Almost immediately, the shipping companies were left with millions of tons of excess ships that they had chartered, and freight rates plummeted. To cut their losses, companies offered to recharter their vessels to other shipping firms at bargain-basement prices. One company in a large Japanese commercial group, for example, chartered a 54,000-ton bulk carrier late...