Word: excesses
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...made his talk of self-effacing harmony seem obsolete. After a brief honeymoon of unanimous opinions in obscure cases, it is the same four Justices on the right and the same four on the left in one high-profile case after another, with Kennedy determining the law. Bombast, rhetorical excess and dueling opinions are thick as Pompeian...
...once rancorous Washington Circuit Court of Appeals as an example of an ideologically divided panel that has managed to find its way back to civility. "It's not clear yet if John Roberts understands that that achievement requires the judges to give something up," Wittes says. "Namely, excess rhetoric." Even some Justices express concern on occasion. The newest of the nine, Alito, has confided that he finds the rhetoric dismaying, and he recently noted during a question-and-answer session at Pepperdine School of Law that it can be almost impossible to slip in a question among all the speechifying...
...toss in the sugar, ensuring that your hooch will have a high alcohol content. Now it’s time to wait for your juice cocktail to bloom into a festering alcoholic abomination. Store the bag in a warm place, opening it once a day to let off excess gas. Do not be alarmed by any nauseating fumes, (we promise, these are an entirely natural part of the process). After six days of nurturing, the rotgut should reach maturity. It’s then time to finalize the process. Open the bag and scoop out the unrecognizable, mold-laced remnants...
producing a condition known as hyponatremia. The result: excess fluid is sucked from the bloodstream into cells--including brain cells--making them swell. Pressure grows inside the skull, and that can lead to permanent damage, even death...
...national haul. Some of the meat is consumed by humans. (No, it doesn't taste like chicken. Think gamier, chewier beef.) Some is used in pet food or animal feed. But much of it ends up frozen in the national whale-meat inventory, which contains thousands of tons of excess food...