Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amusing to see the excess verbiage our Government would like to place on cigarette packs warning smokers about the health hazard [March 8]. Why not be blunt? Packages should be labeled WARNING: CIGARETTES CAN KILL...
...buying binge. Last month it was disclosed that the President planned to add 17,000 nuclear explosive devices to the existing arsenal of 25,000 (which includes armaments for shorter-range missiles, as well as artillery shells, demolition mines and torpedoes). This kind of warhead inflation, seemingly far in excess of what the U.S. should need to deter the Soviets, tends to justify the question asked by those who want a weapons freeze: "How much is enough?" Too often the Administration's answer seems to be simply: "More, much more, as much as possible...
...major military contractors, the buildup will prove a bonanza. Many of them have excess factory capacity brought on by the recession, and they are already revving up unused production lines. Boeing, for example, which has been hard hit by the slump in domestic aviation, is at work on the cruise missile...
Over the years, OPEC ministers have had no trouble raising prices to sky-high levels. Now, however, the world is awash with excess crude-2 million to 3 million bbl. of unused oil per day-and the production cuts necessary to firm up the market are more than some members have so far seemed willing to bear...
Hayes has already outlined Government goals in a major antisodium crusade. Complying with President Reagan's policy against excess Government regulation, he has chosen a "voluntary" approach. Though he has made progress by mixing persuasion and pressure, he threatens "to do something mandatory" if food makers do not cooperate. Hayes' object is to convince businesses that they must 1) label for sodium content, 2) change cooking directions so that adding salt is optional, 3) reduce the amount of sodium in processed foods and 4) offer many more low-sodium or salt-free products. He plans to follow...