Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These ruminations are not marked by an excess of politesse. Nobel Laureate James Tobin, for example, has some scorching opinions about the current Administration. Reaganomics, Tobin declares, has little to do with supply-side theory or any other coherent system. Instead, it is a hodgepodge of measures designed to shift resources from the public to the private sector, and from the poor to the rich, without careful regard for the effect on G.N.P. Says Tobin: "The program will not fulfill the promises that have led the country to support...
...liberals act on their promises--the flame of hope that Meldon E. Levine still saw burning--that is what has been extinguished on campus. In the 10 years since America's Vietnam War officially ended. Harvard students have moved gradually toward a politics of almost meaningless labels: avoid the excess of "radicalism": blame all evil on "conservatives." Remain "liberal," and you're safe. The mindset encourages mildness and discourages being identified as someone whose life is dedicated to "some cause" or, even worse, "causes in general...
...proposal was deceptive and vague. The SS-4s and SS-5s were overdue for the scrap heap anyway. The Soviets may have deployed excess SS-20s precisely so that they could negotiate away some of the surplus to prove their reasonableness. Moreover, Andropov left open the possibility of merely moving the excess SS-20s so that they were east of the Urals; from there the missiles could be put on trains and brought back within range of Europe...
During the mid-1970's, domestic cigarette sales plummeted as American consumers became more aware, and fearful, of the health consequences of smoking. Meanwhile, government price supports for tobacco created excess tobacco stockpiles to aggravate the problem. In presumably smoke-filled rooms, executives of major U.S. tobacco companies--like Philip Morris and U.S. Tobacco--decided the answer to the problem was to expand markets and foist American tobacco on the rest of the world...
...because the excess U.S. tobacco was of poor quality and at best crudely refined, and because foreign smokers too were lighting up less frequently, the U.S. companies found their cigarettes couldn't compete in the cutthroat European and Japanese markets. Anywhere in the developed world, the problems were the same. As Robert Wagman of the North American Newspaper Alliance explained. "The tobacco companies . . . need consumers who will consume high tar tobacco in blissful ignorance of the danger it poses to their health...