Word: excessives
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...urged reduction in consumption of salt by as much as two-thirds in hopes of reducing high blood pressure, especially among those people susceptible to this life-threatening disorder. Despite the physical-fitness boom, the board emphasized the need for even more exercise as a way of burning up excess calories, curbing appetite and staying in trim. Finally, the panel advised Americans to limit their consumption of alcohol, a source of nutritionally "empty" calories, to no more than the equivalent of three mixed drinks...
...after the weekend. Even if we had taken over, we would have turned it right back in three days. And construction continues. The senationalist focus on heroics obscures crucial public information like the New England utilities' own report that due to slower growth in demand, the region has enough excess electrical generating capacity to make Seabrook completely unnecessary. Most sinister of all, CDAS's failure seemed only to harden their resolve and make them talk of sabotage and industrial violence. The way things were going "it's only a matter of time before someone gets killed," as one observer...
Gone is the excess of the war years, when American G.I.s crammed Saigon's bars for instant companionship with girls who sipped "Saigon Tea" as packs of Vietnamese motorcycle cowboys roared through the streets. Now the signs of hard times are everywhere. Once well-to-do matrons slip into Tu Do's antique shops to sell family porcelains and ivory for cash. Beggars haunt the streets by day. At night, scores of vagrants sleep on the steps of the old National Assembly...
...consensus is for a recessionary unemployment peak of about 8% by year's end. Leif Olsen, chief economist of New York's Citibank, says that talk of 12% is a "bit panicky." Says AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland: "Unemployment is going to be in excess of 8% by the end of the year under present circumstances." But Economist Michael Wachter of the University of Pennsylvania, among the most pessimistic on jobs, sees the rate reaching a high...
Increases in productivity are one way to offset the inflationary effects of wage increases. The slowing, and then cessation, of productivity growth recently has exacerbated the problem of core inflation that began with the long period of excess demand at the time of the Vietnam...