Word: excessives
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...super reflector of the sort that has been set up by French scientists high in the Pyrenees. Ten years in the building, the world's largest solar furnace is a complex of nearly 20,000 mirrors and can concentrate enough sunlight to create temperatures in excess...
...which even Seltzer's mellifluous reading of the part of Father Time cannot spare from incredibility, we are treated to the spectacle of Perdita's youthful love for Florizel, the son of Polivenes, her father's brother and amorous rival. Here the production shoots off in the direction of excess...
...hour musical clean-up. (Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci has suggested that Earth People begin to make regular use of Kingsley Park adjacent to Fresh Pond for day and evening celebrations.) People should bring anything and everything to raise goodvibes, and a plastic garbage bag to absorb the excess. People also should walk or do anything else to get to the Festival rather than drive in cars. Containers of all kinds used at the Festival (like people should each bring a jug of cider, or try and get stores to contribute them) will be recycled into a main art area...
...Japanese have a genius for embellishment-often to excess. This proclivity, which they have already demonstrated in commerce, manners and entertainment, was extended last weak to the recent Western fad of skyjacking. The seat-belt sign had just flashed off aboard Japanese Airlines' Flight 351 from Tokyo to Fukuoka when nine young men strategically stationed throughout the crowded aircraft suddenly sprang to their feet. At first some passengers thought that it was only some kind of show or trick. Then the youths pulled out daggers and short, curved samurai swords. Some of them shouted, "We are the Red Army...
Whatever their merit, such arguments now seem somewhat irrelevant. Jawboning may indeed only divert inflationary pressure during a period of excess demand, but Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, believes that the deflationary policies of the last year have already succeeded in wringing excess demand out of the economy. Inflationary pressure now comes from 1) union drives for huge wage increases to catch up with past price boosts, and 2) businessmen's insistence on passing along pay increases by raising prices. It is precisely in such a situation that jawboning and the use of guidelines...