Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from five OPEC nations--Venezuela, Indonesia, Iraq, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates--declined to propose any new output limit for the 13- member group. Their decision goes along with the strategy being pursued by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other wealthy oil producers, who are flooding the market with excess petroleum. These countries aim to push prices excruciatingly low so that non-OPEC oil countries, notably Britain and Norway, will be persuaded to help reverse the glut by cutting output...
Just about every other figure was even more hotly disputed. Reagan wants to hold Congress to an agreement to increase the military budget annually 3% in excess of inflation. But for 1987, he is asking for Pentagon authority to make $311.6 billion in spending commitments, up 8.2% from this year on top of inflation. Spending for Star Wars would rise 75%, to $4.8 billion, making it by far the most expensive U.S. military program. A number of analysts claim that the President's budget understates defense spending by between $10 billion and $15 billion, a contention that is sure...
...subject of student security, a solution such as increased surveillance or police presence and better lighting would lessen the probability of atacks, although no solution could provide 100 percent security. This way, the students will gain security and the homeless will not lose out twice--without excess heat from dining hall vents as well as without a real place to live. Although this cannot be considered progress, it is a start. The real test still lies ahead. Eric A. Berman...
Recently there has been much furor over the installation of grates over the hot air vents behind the Leverett House dining hall. Students and community members are outraged at the callousness that Harvard has shown the unfortunates who must resort to using our excess heat to survive. However, I believe that more people are upset about the cruelly symbolic aspect and unseemliness of the grates themselves, rather than the underlying problems of the security of students and the plight of the homeless...
...focused on the funding of her initial 1978 House race and some of her financial disclosure statements while in office. In 1979 the Federal Election Commission fined her husband-campaign manager John Zaccaro and her committee $750 for arranging $130,000 in loans from her family, well in excess of the $1,000 legal limit allowed for individual contributors. The House Ethics Committee, which looked into Ferraro's failure to report fully her and her husband's incomes, found that she had committed technical violations but did not take further action. Ferraro has been unable to learn whether the Justice...