Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other EPA employees, plus dozens of additional documents. Democratic Congressman James J. Howard of New Jersey, chairman of the House Public Works Committee, demanded an FBI investigation of a recently installed paper shredder outside Lavelle's office that the EPA said had been used to destroy "excess copies" of documents withheld from the House. The EPA told Scheuer that Lavelle's appointment calendars, which he had subpoenaed, had "disappeared" while the agency was preparing a memo explaining erasures in them...
...helped spark an earlier round of discounting, lost $64 million in the first nine months of 1982 after Delta and Eastern began matching the fares on its expanding routes. Says Arthur Bass, chairman of Midway Airlines, a Chicago-based dis counter that earned $4.5 million last year: "With excess capacity, the big airlines are out there to kill someone...
Deregulation and recession have not been kind to the industry. The business of virtually every major firm has been hurt, and the common estimate is that a 20- to 30- percent excess capacity presently exists. These are hard times for truckers, and Reagan's advice concerning "passing on the tax to the customer" has a decidedly hollow ring in the face of the cutthroat competition engendered by the present situation. It is hardly a surprise that the independent truckers chose to strike or that the ATA and the Teamsters were less than effusive in supporting them. From the trucking establishment...
...save the public exhaustion. How many late Roman family portrait busts do most people want to see?" Fair enough, but to lug (for instance) tons of Egyptian sculpture from the Vatican to the Met, whose own Egyptian collection is one of the wonders of museology, is not distillation but excess. The Met insists that the sole aim of the show is aesthetic pleasure for a wide public. "Is the ultimate purpose of a work of art to advance art history or delight the eye?" De Montebello asks. "Art history is secondary to aesthetic delectation. We do not exist for scholars...
...prolificacy exacts a price; in Chesterton's case it was an excess of surface and a lack of consistency. At his death in 1936 he was called a master without a masterpiece, and his value rapidly diminished. If the writer's celebrity was disproportionate, so has been his recent neglect. The Outline of Sanity seeks to correct the imbalance...