Word: excessives
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...effort to make sense out of the great rate confusion will be made when the 108 IATA members meet in Montreal later this month to debate changes in all air fares. Though the price fight is already helping to fill the excess capacity created by the jumbo jets, the brutal competition could undermine the ability of IATA to protect its members from undercutting each other right out of business. Airline executives fear precisely that-particularly if the price war spreads to adult passenger fares as well. At week's end, some major airlines set plans for $200 round-trips...
...project and later billing the Pentagon for enormous cost overruns. But now the financial tribulations of Lockheed (see following story), which has been directed by Congress to swallow some $200 million in cost overruns, has convinced other contractors that they had better spot and announce excess costs well in advance of production. Last week the top echelon of the Pentagon was debating the future of a major new weapons system after its builder informed the Navy that the contract was no longer economically feasible...
...atmosphere produced by the khamsin contains an excess of positive ions. Young people, whose metabolic rates tend to be high, react to such atmospheric conditions by absorbing positive electrical energy like a storage battery, until they literally become overcharged. Their hair becomes electrified and stands on end, and they develop migraine headaches and nausea. They become tense, irritable and occasionally violent. They also secrete large amounts of serotonin, a hormone associated with the nervous system...
Contrasting their personalities, Carrie Nye says: "I honestly don't think Dick has an insecure bone in his body. He's a balanced man. I do things to excess. I am volatile and temperamental, and Dick is not. He's reasonable. It bothers him and me the way people always have to categorize. They see him walking around with long hair and in dungarees and they think he's a hippie. Or they see him on TV in those J. Press suits and think he's Ivy League, they find out he went to Yale and immediately assume he thinks...
...sense of "unspeakable trauma" hides beneath Israel's bustle of self-assertion. An excess of pride is matched by an excess of shame. The "urge to forget and suppress" is as compulsive as "the urge to remember" and to ask without ceasing: "Who is a Jew?" There is a mood of permanent danger, of being encircled and alone...