Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among factors to be investigated when checking on loyalty and reliability: ¶ Any deliberate misrepresentations, falsifications, or omissions of material facts. ¶Any criminal, infamous, dishonest, immoral, or notoriously disgraceful conduct, habitual use of intoxicants to excess, drug addiction, or sexual perversion. ¶Any adjudication of insanity, or treatment for serious mental or neurological disorder without satisfactory evidence of cure...
...Tory benchers broke into roars of approval. But from a few Laborite followers of soccer, which Britons consider their national sport, came a glum mutter: "Class favoritism!" ¶ Added: tax deductions, based on the cost of new plants and equipment (to encourage new investment). ¶ Soon to go: the excess-profits tax (30%), which will end next Jan. 1, leaving British industries and businesses with about $280 million more of their profits than they may now keep. ¶ Cut across the board: British income taxes. The cut for Britain's 16 million income-tax payers was a flat sixpence...
...while, Social Relations was known as a glorious gut, and if attracted many "free-ride boys". The Department has been struggling to cut down this excess enrollment and now reports that the "free riders" are a thing of the past...
...Bucher's experiments have demonstrated, for the first time, how blood cells produce cholesterol and how broken cells produce it more effectively. This may lead to the discovery of how cancer spreads through the body, and adds to present knowledge of how an excess of cholesterol in the blood vessels causes hardening of the arteries...
...Administration's economic advisers are agreed that "direct identifiable expenditures on Korea account for only 10% of military spending, or $4-$5 billion a year . . . Private investment plans should not be altered by a Korean truce from the [present] high levels, [and] there is no evidence of excess capacity in industries where additional investment is now planned, e.g., electric power . . . Present inventories are not considered excessive relative to rates of sales, [and] consumer expenditures seem likely to continue stable to rising...