Word: excessives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Final Accounts. Cranking up the Red Guards anew just to attack Liu Shao-chi seems an excess in itself. The best Western intelligence is that ever since October Liu has been President of China in name only, barred from all Politburo sessions and public affairs of state. He last appeared in public on Nov. 25. His name is no longer affixed to official telegrams to other heads of state. He may still be permitted to go to his office and await dispatches and memos that never come. He may be under some form of detention, either imprisonment or, more likely...
...corporate customer has turned to the bond market to get money for such immediate needs as repaying bank loans and building cash on hand. Corporate bond issues last month reached a record $1.64 billion. Banks, as a result, have also turned to the bond market to keep their excess funds working. So far this year they have invested $4.6 billion in municipal and Government bonds, keeping most of their money in short-term securities that can be quickly liquidated if cash is needed. With so much money around, and the discount rate reduced, some businessmen say that they expect...
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...