Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steel industry, and it would probably shell out an additional $1.3 billion this year alone. "Can we go on devoting subsidies to losing enterprises forever?" asked Mitterrand. The steel plan is part of an overall restructuring program designed to make France's heavy industry competitive by trimming excess capacity and modernizing production. The process could eliminate as many as 60,000 jobs by 1987 in the coal, automobile, shipbuilding and steel industries. "The future of France depends necessarily on the modernization of its industry," said the President. "Either France will be capable of facing up to international competition...
Like the four-minute mile for runners, an annual income of more than $1 million for a U.S. corporate executive once appeared to be a barrier that would be nearly impossible to break. Now, with the economic recovery in full swing, a combined salary and bonus in excess of $1 million is becoming almost commonplace...
...that certain sections are staffed only by robots. Most of the factory's 2,000 employees, 60% of them women, work in the final assembly stage, where the tasks are more complicated. Canon's philosophy exhorts workers to avoid the "nine wastes," which include such sins as excess inventory or defects of any kind. The results are nearly picture perfect. Factory Boss Toshio Endo boasts that in a batch of 470,000 lens mounts produced at the plant over the past three months, only two were defective...
...government also has collected laboratory samples of leaves, rocks, blood and urine from alleged attack sites. These contain what some academic exports say are levels of mycotoxins in excess of what occurs naturally in Asia...
...proud and relieved that his cholesterol level is normal. "Maybe heart disease is God's way of telling us we're living too damn high on the hog," Ford says. "It's hard to practice moderation in this country. We're a nation of excess...