Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overstated, but Lurie's reports from the field of feminine fashion are witty and compact. On designer accessories: "Very ugly brown plastic handbags, which, because they were boldly stamped with the letters 'LV,' . . . cost far more than similar but less ugly brown leather handbags." On excess jewelry: a "lower-middle-class or nouveau riche indicator of sensual laxity." The "Annie Hall" look: "I'm only playing; I'm not really big enough to wear a man's pants." On executive skirts: "Ordinary gestures like sitting on a low sofa or stepping over a puddle...
Nevin moved swiftly. During 1980 he cut excess capacity by closing seven Firestone tire plants in the U.S. and Canada, leaving ten, and reduced employment from 107,000 to 83,000. He slashed plant capacity, in part because he believes that tire sales in the foreseeable future will not return to the levels set during the early 1970s. Reasons: radials wear much longer than bias tires, and auto production is unlikely to reach its prior peak levels...
...speed of sound-and dropping like a rock, 20 times faster than a similar-size DC-9 jet on landing. Finally, it came out of the blue, a tiny, glistening white speck that wrote a special signature in the sky-intermittent puffs of vapor created by the purging of excess fuel...
Breaks does have the occasional (and perhaps inevitable) excess, the overripe prose, the gimpy metaphor, the Jabbar-sized sentence. An example: "Indeed, Paxson, who was white, looked like the star of a new television sit-com about a healthy happy-go lucky midwestern college student who was always trying to borrow his parents' car and getting into trouble, but the kind of trouble that is easily rectified. (That is, no hard drugs.)" The book definitely suffers, too, for its lack of photographs, which would have helped in keeping the many names straight...
While demand edges upward, supplies are going down. U.S. crude-oil inventories now stand at about 19 million fewer barrels than they did a year ago at this time. No oil glut promises to come to the rescue if supplies grow tight during the winter. Indeed, the cushion of excess inventory over normal levels dropped during the summer from 500 million bbl. to roughly 200 million bbl. or so by last month. Energy Analyst Constantine Fliakos of Merrill Lynch now warns that supply and demand could be in actual balance before the end of the year...