Word: excessives
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Choice. McGovern is trying to fight his way clear of association with past radical excess. As he told a group of New Jersey labor leaders almost apologetically: "It's nothing radical to call this nation to the principles on which it was founded." The central theme of his candidacy, he argues, is not that darker side of the '60s, but the decade's loftier impulses: civil rights, equality, more open and humane government, the older and classically Democratic concern for the little man against special interests and corporations. In those enthusiasms he has had a wider following, and probably...
...youngest and most promising of the pros. Tripes, who began riding when he was 11, has been racing professionally for three years. Hooked on motorcycles since the day his next-door neighbor took him for a ride on his Honda 50, Tripes earns in excess of $15,000 a year. In tenth grade, he finds that school interferes with his racing, and he thinks he could earn a lot more if he could race full time. "Some of the people at the school think I'm crazy," he said, his black hair glistening and his brown eyes alive...
...there is an excess of textiles or fertilizers in Portugal, merchants in the colonies must buy them even if comparable foreign-made products are cheaper and better. This arrangement allows an inefficient factory in Portugal to function and even prospet. Without the captive colonial market, the products wouldn't be sold...
...critics have charged that the emotional President is trying to mask his own shortcomings by exploiting his black countrymen's traditional prejudice against the Asians. Since he seized power 18 months ago, for example, Amin has driven Uganda to the verge of bankruptcy, mostly through an excess of military spending (reportedly $90 million last year, v. $20 million in 1968-69). Now his decision to expel the Asians, who pay a large share of the country's taxes and employ tens of thousands of Africans, will cause incalculable disruption to the nation's economy...
Deferred payments are one-year loans at 7 per cent for the amount in excess of what the graduate can pay, which may be renewed so long as the graduate remains in a low-income situation. Applications for postponement of payment are to be decided on the basis of Federal income tax returns. If any indebtedness remains after 13 years, the graduate may apply to have the loan "forgiven," with all repayment obligation cancelled...