Word: gluts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Department of Energy facilities. The budgets for Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are each over $1 billion, and DOE insiders concede that both could be closed and their tasks taken over by another facility. Courter says another commission is needed to sort out the glut, which could mean the squandering of billions of dollars: "DOE has excess capacity you wouldn't believe...
...scholarly corpus is not altogether compelling, and neither is the very problem: Where is this terrifying glut of TV ultra-violence? Senator Simon's galvanizing instance is a scene from a chain-saw murder movie he happened on seven years ago in an Illinois motel room; he doesn't know what it was or who was showing it, and he admits he hasn't watched a lot of TV since. It's true, during the ratings-sweeps periods, the networks each put on a few movies that include scenes of comparatively graphic violence. But those are anomalies, and as theatrical...
...blame Hollywood for the White House celebrity glut...
Many of the nation's smaller dairy farmers are on Rifkin's side in the BGH battle. They are afraid that the hormone will produce a milk glut and drive down prices. But what dairy farmers large and small fear most is that the BGH controversy will scare off customers. Firms that have staked their reputation on purity -- manufacturers of baby formula and whole-earth companies like Ben & Jerry's and Stonyfield Farm -- have publicly forsworn the use of the hormone. Market surveys bear out industry concern, predicting a 10% decline in national milk consumption should BGH be widely used...
...Miami and Denver may be ecstatic, they should consider how much they're losing. In Florida, spring training used to be special. Now, the Sunshine State, which really isn't that pretty during the frequent summer thunderstorms which will no doubt wash out many a Marlin game, has a glut of baseball...