Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Muhammad Ali will fight Larry Holmes sometime this fall. Each man will be paid in excess of $10 million. It will be the biggest thing ever. Muhammad Ali will win. He will hold the heavy-weight championship for the fourth time...
...sharp recession in the U.S. have decreased the world's thirst for petroleum. OPEC's economics experts told the ministers at the beginning of the meeting that world oil production is now about 1 million to 2 million bbl. per day greater than demand. The excess output is acting as a restraint on countries wishing to push the price of oil ever higher. Said Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the Saudi oil minister, after the meeting: "The agreement does not impose restrictions on others not to raise their prices. But I don't think they are going...
...photographic teams visits another scientist, Dr. Ralph Nelson of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, who is trying to learn the secrets of hibernation in bears. Unlike humans, who simply waste away when they go without food for long periods, hibernating bears exist for months on only excess...
...urged reduction in consumption of salt by as much as two-thirds in hopes of reducing high blood pressure, especially among those people susceptible to this life-threatening disorder. Despite the physical-fitness boom, the board emphasized the need for even more exercise as a way of burning up excess calories, curbing appetite and staying in trim. Finally, the panel advised Americans to limit their consumption of alcohol, a source of nutritionally "empty" calories, to no more than the equivalent of three mixed drinks...
Gone is the excess of the war years, when American G.I.s crammed Saigon's bars for instant companionship with girls who sipped "Saigon Tea" as packs of Vietnamese motorcycle cowboys roared through the streets. Now the signs of hard times are everywhere. Once well-to-do matrons slip into Tu Do's antique shops to sell family porcelains and ivory for cash. Beggars haunt the streets by day. At night, scores of vagrants sleep on the steps of the old National Assembly...