Word: excess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Harvard overlooked the Lions. If anything, the aquamen had overlooked Navy the day before in preparation for Columbia. Navy's shave--which allows a team to take off the excess hair that accounts for unwelcome excess surface area and along the way pick up a huge psychological lift--caught the Crimson offguard...
...table in Geneva at; all the superpowers, they said, had no license to bargain over the independent deterrents of other countries. But to many West Europeans, Andropov's proposal sounded Like a major concession. It also amounted to a tacit admission that the Soviets already had a large excess...
...councilors were less amenable to the transfer of $800,000 from the school department's debt stabilization fund to pay for excess expenditures...
...poorly fastened lid on a lead container allowed the excess radiation to leak into a second container according to the NRC report...
...movie Whose Life Is It Anyway?, and sought answers from lawyers and judges, who are the first to admit they are ill-equipped to deal with them. Baby Jane Doe, as she is known in New York court documents, was born Oct. 11 with a protruding spinal cord, excess fluid on the brain, an abnormally small head and other serious defects. Doctors concluded that the child would be paralyzed, severely retarded and in pain for however long she lived. That term, they added, would be a maximum of two years without corrective surgery; with it, she might live...