Word: excessives
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When Jeno's Inc. built a frozen-pizza plant in economically depressed Wellston, Ohio (pop. 6,100), last March, city officials were delighted. But they found it hard to stomach the consequences. An estimated 300,000 gal. of pizza waste, made up of excess flour, cheese, pepperoni, tomato paste and meat particles, backed up in Wellston's sewage-treatment plant. The sludge filled one of two 250,000-gal. holding tanks and began to flow into the other. The waste, high in acid content, could not be buried in its gooey form, and the city lacked the equipment...
...shared. To consider it evil in and of itself would be a considerable inconvenience to the human species. Everybody, after all, has things to hide; the mind, psychology teaches, even conceals information from itself. It is probably the very naturalness of concealment that tempts people to carry it to excess. There is, in any case, no end of secrecy...
...have been writing for a full half hour in excess of the allotted time," said the proctor. "According to university rules. I am compelled to consider your exam invalid...
...surprisingly, those advocating renewed lending have become more vociferous, among them Regan, Volcker and IMF Managing Director Jacques de Larosiére. Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told a bankers' convention in Atlanta last October that "new loans must be in excess of [the borrowing countries' existing] interest payments to allow these countries to keep growing." In Western Europe, the central banks are doing more than talk: many are pressing smaller lenders to produce the new loans. In the U.S., Volcker is trying to do the same thing in a different way. He wants new loans...
...Woodstock culture. He tried pre-philosophy, meditation, the I Ching, LSD and the excellent vegetarian curries at the Hare Krishna house in Portland. He swore off meat about this time and took up vegetarianism "in my typically nutso way." One temporary result, say friends, was skin tinted by an excess of carotene to the color of an early sunset...