Word: excessives
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France: An Excess of Greed...
...nearly 350 daily flights canceled, the lockout is costing the airlines a combined $1.8 million daily in operating losses. The flight crews have not found much sympathy from either public or press. Commented Le Monde: "The pilots have an excellent image. Do they have to spoil it through an excess of greed?" What most bothers French aviation men is the possibility that a prolonged suspension will eat up reserves earmarked for such new purchases as the Boeing 747 and the Franco-British Concorde...
...price of new weapons, Pennsylvania Representative William S. Moorhead estimates that the ultimate outlay would run between $161 billion and $176 billion. Whatever the final cost, taxpayers and Congress have a right to be reassured that the money is to be spent with adequate safeguards against waste and excess profits...
...recorded a total loss in excess of $50.000 during the last two years. As a result, expansion has been impossible...
...rate as a result of U.S. balance of payments deficits. Common Market countries complain that the flow of dollars affects interest rates, finances the takeover of European firms by U.S. companies and promotes inflation on the Continent, since central banks have to issue their own currencies to buy up excess dollars in the marketplace. Singly, European nations have little defense against the flood. Any country that raises the value of its own currency in relation to the dollar would in effect be raising the price of the goods it sells to its trading partners...