Word: excessive
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CHINA. In the late 1970s the government began allowing peasants to sell excess produce on open markets and pocket the proceeds. Result: sales of agricultural products are up 53.5% since 1978. Last month China unveiled a plan to extend similar capitalist-style reforms to its long-depressed cities. State-owned enterprises will be allowed to keep part of their profits, and managers will have new freedom to set wage levels and hire and fire as they choose. Most important, the prices of many products will be allowed to fluctuate according to supply and demand. Until now, the cost of such...
Rapid rotation of star causes a tremendous in crease in the ultraviolet light. X-rays, and gamma radiation it the Sun rotated rapidly in its south, this excess radiation may have had important effects on the youthful Earth's atmosphere...
...This isn't a team loaded with excess talent," the guard says. "Everyone is giving his maximum...
America, in all its promise and excess, has long intoxicated the French. Truffaut's achievement was to reconcile, with a uniquely canny buoyancy, the polar tugs of these two cultures. Six of the 21 features he directed were based on works by American writers, from Cornell Woolrich (The Bride Wore Black) to Henry James (The Green Room), yet they were unmistakably French in atmosphere and obsessions. In Truffaut's pantheon of directors, Hitchcock rubbed shoulders with Jean Renoir, and his own films sizzled with the tension between Hitchcock's manipulative elegance and Renoir's sharp-eyed...
...reach Blore's position of eminence without being checked or vetted? Questions like this were put in the public mind by the likes of Feathers. In other words, he worried them, and stirred them up. For this, the capitalist press magnates paid him sums far in excess of any fee he would have received from the Soviets for acting against Western interests...