Word: excessive
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Howard Hughes died batty and beset by phantoms, and all of us learned valuable lessons from his downfall: do not let your fingernails grow to excess, do not inherit too much money, do not fly too high. The man's decay was so pathetic and so gaudy that it is difficult now even for those with a good grip on middle age to remember that once he was a hero. A strange hero, certainly, but a real one; a test pilot of impressive courage and a gifted, self-taught aircraft designer at a time when aviation was the century...
...company inventories around the world are now swelling with a surplus of excess production that oilmen estimate may amount to as much as 1 million to 2 million bbl. of daily output. The situation is particularly pronounced in the U.S., where petroleum consumption dropped by 5.2% in the first quarter, after declining by 8% last year...
...member of the audience asked the panel how the U.S. could overcome not only the shortage of engineers that Vogel referred to, but also its excess of lawyers, which he called, "not only unproductive, but literally counteractive...
...burden of the poor. Before the Harding-Mellon cut, tax rates in the United States ranged from 4 to 73 per cent. In 1922, the World War I tax surcharge was reduced, lowering the top rate from 73 to 58 per cent. In addition, Congress repealed the wartime "excess profits" tax and lowered the taxes on capital gains...
...Herod's birthday and he gave a stag party"-Mark 6:21) or shocking ("You son of a bitch!"-Saul to Jonathan in 1 Samuel 20: 30-changed to "You fool!" in recent printings). Scholars, including some of Taylor's fellow Evangelicals, uncharitably accuse the book of "excess," "blatant mistranslation," "deliberate distortion" and "theological bias...