Word: excessive
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Rhoden Streeter works too hard at Puck. He is too often heard gasping supreme ecstasy and his "Lord, what fools they mortals be," is, like the rest of his part, produced with excess force. Towards the end of the play he relaxes more than he should and falls to a cheerless drone...
...grace, Lee got $6,000,000 in government-backed loans to finance the fertilizer plant. The remainder of the money included a $43.9 million loan from Japan's Mitsui & Co. and a $1,000,000 investment by International Ore and Fertilizer Corp. of New York, which will market excess output abroad...
...credit would amount to 75 per cent of the first $200 paid for an education, 25 per cent of the next $300, and 10 per cent of the next $1,000. The credits to very well-healed parents would be less -- reduced $1 for every $100 earned in excess of $25,000 a year. This means that anyone making more than $57,500 annually would be ineligible...
Directors of the company maintained that they had no knowledge of any overcharges-which for some work amounted to twice the contract price. Ministry of Technology officials said that they had realized the company's profits were excessive, but that they had been refused access to Bristol Siddeley's books. Trying to cool the criticism, Minister of State (Technology) John Stonehouse told Commons that though Bristol Siddeley's contract was not open to renegotiation, so that the company was not obliged to repay any money, its directors had agreed to return $11 million of excess profits...
...alike were quick to remember that the same thing happened only three years ago, when Ferranti, Ltd., repaid $12 million after acknowledging an 82% profit manufacturing Bloodhound missiles. Since then, there has been no significant change in the basis for contracting. The government still has no legal redress for excess profits...