Word: excessives
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Collor's answer was a monetary "shock" that a Bank of Boston report called "the most severe program of economic stabilization ever imposed in a Latin American country, or perhaps in any country." Under its main provisions, the majority of all financial assets, including savings accounts in excess of about $1,200, were frozen for 18 months. Millions of Brazilians were affected: Collor's action took about $85 billion out of play, abruptly halted most business activity and dropped inflation to 3.29% in April. Collor also announced the immediate abolition of two dozen state agencies and said he would sell...
Heavy peer pressure is just one factor. Contact sports may be inherently violent, but, notes Harvard's Dr. Lawrence Hartmann, president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association, "sports today is a phenomenon of excess, of ferocious aggression." Players are encouraged to bash opponents out of a game, by fair means or foul. Brawls and scuffles interrupt baseball and basketball games, and hockey melees have long been so common they are considered just a part of the show. Few athletic officials seem upset. Instead of quickly handing out fines and suspensions, too many coaches and managers engage in long-winded debates...
...past, Saudi Arabia had been the one to stabilize OPEC's overall production level. As the so-called swing producer, the rich Saudis would cut back their output to offset the excess pumping of other members. In 1986 the Saudis got tired of playing the sucker and flooded the market with their unrivaled stores of crude, pushing prices down in an attempt to punish the cheaters and force them to play straight. That method proved of little value in taming Kuwait and the U.A.E., which have rich petroleum reserves and tend to favor lower prices as a way of discouraging...
...looked as though he might be worthy of it. The panel's three Democrats and three Republicans accused the Senator of knowingly engaging in reprehensible conduct that was "clearly and unequivocally unethical." They also recommended that Durenberger be required to pay to charity the $95,000 he received in excess of allowable speaking fees and another $29,000 he pocketed by charging the government rent for staying in a . Minneapolis condominium that he owned. Only expulsion, which the ethics committee last recommended in 1981 for New Jersey Democrat Harrison Williams for his part in the Abscam scandal, would have been...
Like so many who breathe the intoxicating air of power, Durenberger thought he could get away with bending the rules. Limits on speaking fees? Launder the money by counting excess payments as book-promotion fees. Trips to a marriage counselor in Boston too expensive? Arrange business lunches and collect honorariums. Need some extra income? Bill the government rent for staying in a condominium you own. Not until after the committee issued its recommendation did Durenberger concede that "I have made serious mistakes. I acknowledge them and accept full responsibility...