Word: excessiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much-kneaded ball of dough on the U.S. breadboard is the expense account. Suspicious that thousands of people collect more than a few crumbs with every outlay for business expenses, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service decided to try to police a longstanding rule that taxpayers report the excess of reimbursements over expenses. Last year IRS put a line on the 1957 tax form for reporting reimbursed expenses, hastily gave taxpayers a year's moratorium after a howl rocked the very foundation of expense-accountland, sent martini glasses aquivering from Manhattan's gay "21" restaurant to Los Angeles...
...Jews drink but how. From the eighth day of his life, when he is circumcised, the Orthodox Jewish boy is surrounded by religious ceremonies (Redemption of the Firstborn, Bar Mitzvah) that involve the drinking of wine. In addition to holy days, each Sabbath brings three Orthodox rituals involving wine. Excess is avoided because "drinking thus occurs in the presence of the most powerful sanctions in Orthodox Jewish life." If so, does drunkenness increase among Jews as they leave the Orthodox faith? Snyder's statistics indicate that there is a slight trend in this direction, particularly when Jews are exposed...
...hours-a-day routine at the Ultimas Noticias building, Publisher Capriles celebrated Venezuela's freedom with a flurry of now-it-can-be-told newspaper stories. At the same time, Miguel Capriles and most other publishers realize that they can best shore up a shaky democracy by avoiding excess in their new freedom. Wryly, Capriles admits: "For the time being we are exercising a sort of self-censorship...
Over breakfast next day, Belinda fell to the floor, was rushed to a Rome hospital and stomach-pumped of an excess of barbiturates. Filippo rushed after her and created such a scene that attendants had to remove him bodily. When his wife and her lawyer appeared next morning at the flat he had shared with Belinda, Prince Orsini tamely let himself be led home, but then-in a burst of anger-slashed his wrists with a razor blade...
...noninflationary" profit-sharing plan; under this, all company profits (before taxes ) in excess of 10% of capital invested would be sliced up to give 25% to employees (other than executives) and to refund another 25% to auto buyers as rebates...