Word: excessives
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...turned into more persistent "cost-push inflation." Excess demand at last has been wrung out of the economy, he believes, but prices are being pushed up now by excessive union wage demands. In a sense, this means past inflation is causing present inflation; union men are angry that past price increases have eaten up their previous pay gains, and they are pressing for extraordinary boosts to catch up and protect themselves against still more price increases in the future...
While SST flights may be banned from populated areas, some ecologists fear that economic necessity may reverse this pattern. If this happens, they say, sonic booms generated as SSTs fly at speeds in excess of the speed of sound could upset people who do delicate work (brain surgeons) and may also harm persons with nervous ailments...
...concerning Laos and Thailand was not an infringement of the President's power as Commander in Chief, then the constitutional argument concerning Cambodia would seem to be weakened. On the other hand, if restrictions on the President's flexibility were accepted as commonplace, they could proliferate to excess. Both law and common sense dictate that the President respond as quickly as necessary to threats to U.S. security. The air and nuclear age make it impossible for the President to seek congressional approval, formal or otherwise, in every contingency. Because the issues are gray in both legal and military...
...musical sentences are always composed of complete units, which is why he manipulates prosody by syllable rather than word. He abhors sostenuto music, prefers staccato, the breaks of breath, which render every particle of every line crystalline. He does not admit superfluous notes, dynamic nourishes, believing that "gratuitous excess spoils every substance, every form that it touches." He is most traditional, and most original, in his use of severely-delineated polyphony, rhythm, text, and articulation. Stravinsky has always demanded austere linear counterpoint, a practice which recalls Mahler's dictum that "All music is counterpoint...
...equal to nearly any hassle. He has so much energy that he runs ten miles a day to burn off the excess. He does not drink, eats at what he calls "the antipodes of the day," and works like a Trojan the rest of the time...