Word: plethora
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cast is a sparkling credit to the British National Theater, who have here exported some of their plethora of talent. You do not have to take Sir Freddie Laker's no-frills flights to see London's finest, and the laughs are nonstop. -T.E. Kalem
With investments of several hundred million dollars in dozens of corporations, Harvard must contend with a plethora of resolutions each year. This year, for example, the Corporation will consider 40 shareholder resolutions in more than 20 corporations. Before the Corporation votes on the resolutions, however, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) considers each resolution and advises the Corporation how to vote. The ACSR will spend the next month discussing resolutions...
Contradictions are common among the plethora of regulations laid down by different agencies. While the Department of Energy was busy regulating for greater industrial use of domestic coal to cut oil imports, the EPA was penalizing companies for polluting the air with coal smoke. There are also unnecessary inefficiencies: New York City has been ordered by the Department of Transportation to build subway ramps and elevators for the handicapped at a cost of $1.5 billion, even though impecunious city fathers contend that it would be cheaper to give the disabled free cab rides for life...
What it comes down to is that political fireworks at the county level last went off on September 19 at the Democratic Primary. For the county aspirants, November's hopes were nothing compared to the anxieties of winning the primary. Many good men fell by the wayside in the plethora of close intraparty races, and now all the pomp and excitement seems to zero in on Brooke vs. Tsongas, King vs. Hatch, Bellotti vs. Weld, where it once pondered Droney vs. Harshbarger, Twomey vs. Antonelli, and Shannon vs. the World...
...taxpayer? Carter attempted to meet the demands of every constituency of the old Democratic coalition, and practically everybody else as well. He gave in to-or actively encouraged -increases in the minimum wage, Social Security benefits, veterans' benefits, farm subsidies, civil service pensions, grants to states and a plethora of other payouts. He acceded to tariff increases or stricter import limits on sugar and steel, TV sets, CB radios and other products, thus sheltering domestic producers from competition and enabling them to get theirs-by raising prices...