State Farm was accused of charging excessive rates in California.

"We cannot accept an excessive rate that taxes businesses and consumers," Mr. Green said yesterday at a news conference.

The fine for excessive rates is $1,000 a room, officials said.

This also means the battery is not normally damaged by excessive rates of overcharge, discharge or even negative charge.

Hoffman could do nothing but sit there helplessly and watch the runway dissolve at what seemed to him an excessive rate of speed.

Among the adoptees themselves the most highly creative showed an excessive rate of mental illness - as much as 30 per cent.

The enormous and excessive rates charged by monopoly utilities are the largest drag on local economies.

A. I am aware of more than one company that has charged excessive rates, but these are the exception rather than the rule.

But the bill gives the state insurance commissioner the ability to limit "excessive" rates in any particular section of the state.

This subsequently required an excessive rate of descent.