Word: excess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thursday night, however, Reagan at last showed that he recognized the seriousness of the situation -- and the need for action. "We shouldn't assume ! that the stock market's excess volatility is over," he asserted at a White House press conference, and he acknowledged that public fear spread by those gyrations "could possibly bring about a recession." More important, he announced that he was summoning the leaders of Congress to a bipartisan deficit-cutting conference at which, through his top aides, he was "putting everything on the table with the exception of Social Security, with no other preconditions." Including...
...endowment could skyrocket to the moon and back, and it still wouldn't make a dent on the budget. The reason is that the endowment pays out a set rate more than it has paid out the previous year, regardless of how much it has grown in the meantime. Excess gains are reinvested, and the pot grows bigger...
...milk and dairy products, lean meat, few eggs and absolutely no animal fat or poultry skin. If cholesterol cannot be reduced with diet alone, the panel directed, physicians should prescribe such drugs as cholestyramine and colestipol, which act in the intestines and cause the body to utilize excess cholesterol. The much touted newer drug lovastatin, which works in the liver, where most of the body's cholesterol is manufactured, is mentioned as a second choice, since its long-term effects remain unknown. Based on the new standards, one in four adults may require diet modifications or drug therapy...
...patrician St. Alban's School. He met Tipper (a childhood nickname; her real name is Mary Elizabeth) at his St. Alban's graduation party. John Davis, who taught Gore church history, remembers him as the straightest arrow in the quiver, someone whose only evident vice was an excess of virtue: "Everybody would think, 'This can't be real...
Potentially more damaging than ozone depletion, and far harder to control, is the greenhouse effect, caused in large part by carbon dioxide (CO2). The effect of CO2 in the atmosphere is comparable to the glass of a greenhouse: it lets the warming rays of the sun in but keeps excess heat from reradiating back into space. Indeed, man-made contributions to the greenhouse effect, mainly CO2 that is generated by the burning of fossil fuels, may be hastening a global warming trend that could raise average temperatures between 2 degrees F and 8 degrees F by the year...