Word: excessives
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...tons of tomatoes and 723 tons of pears. Belgium followed suit, as did The Netherlands. This year, with much more bountiful harvests, the German government has refused "on moral grounds" to be party to the destruction of fruit. Government authorities are now weighing the possibility of distilling the excess fruit into schnapps. Germany's Butterberg problem is even more serious. Nearly 30% of the profits of German farming comes from milk products. Common Market regulations allow the government to support the price of butter at the 75-cents-a-pound level. This means in effect that the dairy must...
...raises in their rents as leases come up for renewal on Sept. 30, the traditional date for residential lease expirations. Many landlords, says Frederic S. Herman, the city's commissioner of rent and housing maintenance, are demanding "increases of 40%, 50% and 60%-and a few in excess of 100%." In scores of instances, the exorbitant hikes amount to nothing less than an old-fashioned eviction. "It's frightful. I can't find anything that I can afford," says Patricia Oberle, a young Manhattan medical secretary. She has been looking since February for another place to live...
...wasted on the old. Without it, youth is condemned to excess. That's what makes adolescents so saddening and maddening-and adolescence such a groovy movie subject. In Zita, an archetypical French fille named only Annie flits agonizingly between life and death. The daughter of a slain Spanish loyalist, she has sympathy for the world but affection for none of its inhab itants, except her ancient Aunt Zita (Katina Paxinou). One afternoon the girl comes home to find the old lady writhing on the floor. Zita has suffered a stroke, and each gasp edges her closer to the grave...
...widower with four children, is a prominent professing Catholic. But he does not see rhythm as the only permissible method for many women. "If a woman has heavy or irregular periods, or painful periods, or sometimes has none, or if she has premenstrual tension or endometriosis, bleeding between periods, excessive hairiness or pimples [caused by an excess of androgenic hormones], or is excessively fat or is approaching the change of life, her doctor is morally justified in prescribing any treatment he likes. And that includes the pill." Dr. Cross's list is comprehensive enough to qualify about half...
...hand, Dr. Joseph F. Fletcher of Massachusetts' Episcopal Theological School, the nation's leading exponent of situation ethics, argues that "the morality of pot depends on circumstances. Social drinking is not immoral, social smoking is not immoral, social pot is not immoral-unless they are used to excess...