Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would like everyone to remember that it saw just such a winter shaping up as early as November, says that the same basic condition caused both the western cold and the eastern warmth. The villain, says William H. Klein of the bureau's Extended Forecast Section, was an "excess of [air] mass" in the subpolar regions of the Western Hemisphere and a "deficit of mass" in the subtropics. This unbalanced condition, favoring the southward movement of cold air, upset the whole air circulation...
...suffering not from a lack, but from an excess of support. Congress was well aware that the commitment had been made. They could only examine the books, and assess its achievements. Was EGA succeeding? The Administration's answer was a triumphant...
...cents per half hour, regardless of the number using the table, is necessitated by the federal Pool Table Act. However, it is not the purpose of the room to make a profit and if an excess of funds develops the fee will be lowered proportionately. Funds from the compulsory charge will be used to pay the salary of the student attendant...
...assigned to a court case in police history--would be justified if there were no other way to insure the peace. But it takes time for a crowd to develop into a riotous mob. Enough time for a modern police force to reinforce a moderate guard. In fact, an excess of police could do just as much to trigger trouble as to prevent...
...with some "improvements" such as a ban on jurisdictional strikes. Then he called for new taxes to raise $4 billion in additional revenues and five days later sent along a 1,400-page budget to explain it. He no longer advocated, as he had last year, restoring the wartime excess-profits tax. He urged Congress instead to get the money by raising rates on straight corporation taxes and rates on incomes in the middle and upper brackets...