Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gasoline at the pump, prices have suddenly started to creep up again. The reason: a developing squeeze on worldwide petroleum stockpiles and supplies. Production cuts by Saudi Arabia, the largest single oil producer in the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, have combined with a continuing rundown of excess inventories by oil companies to start wiping out the price-depressing effects of last winter's oil glut. Says Claude Messinger of Ashland Oil, who was the chairman of a gathering last week in New York of the American Petroleum Institute: "In my judgment, gasoline prices have bottomed...
...Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, was convicted last year with Drs. Alan Lefkowitz and Eugene Sherry of cooperating in the repeated rape of a woman they met a mutual friend's party. Superior Court Judge Walter Steele had the option of handing down prison sentences in excess of 20 years because each man was held responsible for all three attacks. The average penalty for the crime in Massachusetts is an 11-year term. The defendants received suspended sentences under which they would have to spend six months in jail. "Another case where the punishment fit the criminal...
...avoid hasty activity." At best, he argues, Congress can block and can force a President in a direction, "but positive leadership has to come from the President." Democratic Congressman Richard Gephardt of Missouri agrees that the shapers of the Constitution meant Congress to be a check on Executive excess. "It's the price you pay for diffusing power," he says...
...falling load factor and said, "TWA's [load factor] dropped even further in the first two months of this year to 49.1%." Untrue! TWA's load factor rose by 1.7 percentage points in the first two months of 1982 to 53.2%, reflecting our continuing program of reducing excess capacity-the plague of the industry...
...whom are employees of long standing who weekend with him at a converted farm house that he owns jointly with Galeotti, in Forte dei Marmi, about three hours' drive from Milan. The decoration there is a kind of bucolic adaptation of the Milan digs, with the same aquatic excess: in this case, an Olympic-size pool. For sun, and the summers, Armani, Galeotti and pals repair to a Moorish-style domed house on the island of Pantelleria, 50 miles off the coast of Tunisia, where nature has supplied her own aquatic excess in the form of the Mediterranean...