Word: excessives
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...that Iran can go on buying more and better arms at the current rate indefinitely. Though it is the second-largest producer of oil in the Middle East after Saudi Arabia, Iran is no Croesus looking for ways to spend excess money. The Shah is committed to shifting his country of 31 million people into a more balanced economy less dependent on oil. He boasts that within ten years Iran will be the equal of France or West Germany today. But that takes money too. Says a U.S. observer in Teheran: "At the moment, between arms and development, they...
...Between, class consciousness induces a terse, desperate kind of sexuality, then thwarts it. But there the similarity ends. Robert Shaw portrays a stolid, ambitious owner of a small hired-car firm. Sarah Miles the balmy aristocrat whom he chauffeurs and who drives hi, in turn, to excess es of frustration. Miles' meager talents, her shrill, spindly posturings, have lost through incessant repetition the small novelty they might once have...
...That excess of zeal brought a gentle reminder from Police Commissioner Donald Cawley that citizens should not "see themselves as police, prosecutor and jury." But everyone, including Cawley, took heart at the apparent reversal of the city's "I don't want to get involved" attitude, reified nine years ago when Kitty Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death as dozens of her Queens neighbors looked on without even bothering to call the police. With appropriate caution, New York Mayor John Lindsay expressed the hope that "it's the beginning of a trend...
Still, the cardinal's support was unequivocal. He conceded that there could be excess among the Pentecostals, noting that "when you light a lamp in the darkness, you will draw some mosquitoes." But he praised the leaders for their "sound theology, common sense and wisdom." Indeed, he said, the Pentecostal renewal is "not a movement. It is a current of grace ... growing fast everywhere in the world. I feel it coming, and I see it coming." And to the stadium crowd: "You are in such a special way the people...
...step completely out of his previous role as an infighting politician. His electoral foray into New York in 1964 was a stage-managed grab for power, and even in his last campaign he never dispersed the tough-minded, practical New Frontiersmen who had always clustered around him, cautioning against excess, staging touch football games with poor kids for the television cameras and the campaign documentaries...