Word: excessives
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...arid land, and making it fit for agriculture by bringing in federally subsidized water. According to the suit, larger landowners (including such agribusiness giants as Southern Pacific Co., Standard Oil and Tenneco Inc.) gradually cut themselves in for Government water, ignoring the requirement that they sell any land in excess of 160 acres in exchange...
...Institute of Politics grant, interviewing bureaucrats and others for his thesis on the politics of aviation regulatory reform. What with accumulated tapes of interviews, stacks of books and committee hearings and reports that he gathered over the summer, he says "My biggest problem coming back here was excess baggage...
...Germany's economic miracle, the Gastarbeiter (primarily from Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and Spain) were welcomed by labor-hungry industries. Major reason: they willingly accepted menial jobs disdained by most West Germans. But since unemployment began to rise in late 1973, the foreigners have found themselves treated as excess baggage, even though most continue to hold jobs and gratefully work long hours. Bonn has barred German firms from hiring new Gastarbeiter from countries outside the European Community. (Common Market rules guarantee citizens of its member states freedom of movement within the Community.) The government has also imposed tough...
...Bendix Corp. at first sought to defend the expense-account lunch. But in a long session in the White House earlier this year, Blumenthal and his aides came away convinced that Carter's moral conviction compelled him to take action against what he believes to be an unjustified excess...
...excess money the University would collect because of the overcharge would be sufficient to fund one semester of hot breakfasts at the eight cold breakfast Houses without a board rise, Fox said...