Word: excessives
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...distance from reality ? to behavior or opinions more blatant than their own. Middle leads naturally to mediocre, a word that takes its roots from what is middling and therefore ordinary. Yet Aristotle, judging the temperaments of men, exalted the intermediate and argued that anything more extreme was either excess or defect. To him there was, for example, a desirable quality called bravery, and on one side of it cowardice, and on the other, foolhardiness. There was pride, and on one side of it boasting, and on the other, excessive modesty. This sort of cataloguing, while admirable, soon begins sounding...
President Nixon is having his troubles with the men of God. There is a great irony in it. While Nixon himself has not invoked Scripture or the Lord's name in his pronouncements to great excess, he has, more than any other modern President, given his Administration a patina of piety. Now the political crimes of Watergate seem all the more noxious because of that banner of righteousness...
...Arabs have been reluctant to put their excess cash into long-term investments, where it would help stabilize world finance. Western stocks and bonds, they believe, do not pay enough to be a good hedge against skyrocketing inflation, and real estate holdings could be seized by Western governments. Instead, the Arabs have been putting most of their money into the shortest-term investments possible: U.S. Treasury bills, New York and London bank certificates of deposit, and Eurodollar bank accounts-many of them "call" accounts from which the money may be withdrawn instantly without advance notice. That is a form...
...recent weeks, however, the uneasy alliance of the Liberals and the New Democrats had shown signs of coming apart. Trudeau's legislative concessions were all but exhausted and many New Democrats were tired of being identified with the Liberals. Five weeks ago, the N.D.P. demanded an excess-profits tax on the windfalls of "corporate welfare bums" -New Democrat Leader David Lewis' favorite term for big corporations. When Trudeau and Finance Minister John Turner rejected the demands, Lewis flashed a bridge-burning signal: "We've concluded that there doesn't seem to be very much more that...
...Sydney Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, to his archrival, Rupert Murdoch, for $20 million. Once an amateur heavyweight boxing champion, Packer was combative, even ruthless, in his business dealings. He described his unsuccessful bids for the yachting America's Cup in 1962 and 1970 as prompted by "an excess of champagne and delusions of grandeur...