Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...swift and stiff follow-up punch, the Pentagon declared that it was temporarily barring G.E. from any new military contracts. As if that were not enough, the Pentagon disclosed that it was taking another "exceptional action" against the company, demanding that it voluntarily return what the Defense Department considers excess profits collected on contracts for Navy and Air Force jet spare parts. Amount of the requested refund: $168 million...
...annually to finance the membership of the new partners. The Community's creaking agricultural subsidy programs will have to deal with a 28% increase in the farming population, which will complicate an already critical problem of surpluses. Spain's government-subsidized steel industry will add to Western Europe's excess capacity...
INSTRUCTOR OF ENGLISH Allison W. Phinney didn't quite know what to do Neither did Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities Susan R. Suleiman. Both were more than a bit surprised to see in excess of 60 students at the first meeting of their classes this term. Both wound up excluding most of those in attendance the first week, because they really had no other choice; there was no way to accommodate all of the prospective students. After all, neither English 288 nor Literature 104 was designed to admit all interested, or even all qualified undergraduates: Phinney...
...billion less than the President is requesting over the next three fiscal years. It proposed to deny the military any increase at all next fiscal year, beyond what is necessary to keep pace with inflation, and hold the increase in 1987 and 1988 to 3% in excess of inflation. Reagan is asking for increases of 5.9% above inflation next year and more than 8% the following two years...
Neighborhood 10's Brode said that while the final outcome might be excess parking, traffic congestion during construction would be heavy because building the new parking deck is the last leg of the hospital's construction...