Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...automobile industry now," says Jack Kirnan, an expert on the field for the Kidder, Peabody investment firm. The popular Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable have emerged as the pace cars of U.S. automotive design, thanks to their distinctive curves. On the financial side, Ford has slashed its excess automaking capacity and boosted worker productivity...
...fewer than necessary in 1980. Ford has not opened a single new U.S. plant since 1980 but has refitted old ones with automated equipment. The reduced capacity means that Ford's inventory may run short during a boom, but it ensures that the company will not be awash in excess autos during a bust...
...American manufacturing capacity, largely in so-called transplant factories that depend heavily on imported Japanese parts. Meanwhile, American auto companies have entered into new and exotic relationships with foreign producers, both in the U.S. and abroad, that can only further add to the potential auto glut. By 1990 the excess production capacity in the U.S. could reach 1 million to 2 million cars annually, or roughly 10% to 20% of projected domestic sales...
...forgettable Millard Fillmore as having had the best head for design and doing as much as any other President to improve the White House grounds and the beauty of Washington. The mounds on the South Lawn are not Jefferson's after all, says Seale, but the result of dumping excess dirt from excavation for the Treasury Department when Franklin Pierce was President...
...percentage, which is 3.6 percent of each grant, will not cover some administrative costs, said Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck. He added that excess administrative costs are more likely to occur at the Medical School than in the Faculty of Arts and Science, because medical area research is more capital intensive...