Word: excessions
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...rebate is supposed to delay that day of reckoning just long enough for Corporate America to shake off their excess inventories and start ramping up production again, followed by the long-awaited rebirth of capital investment in expansion, new equipment or in other companies. Alan Greenspan's six-and-counting interest-rate cuts will presumably help that along, but most forecasts see another six months before businesses really get their sea legs back...
...Where are scientists getting these cells? Until very recently, the vast majority of stem cells used in research came from discarded (or excess) embryos stored at in-vitro fertilization clinics. If potential parents decide against having more children, scientists working with stem cells might ask them to consider donating the unneeded embryos to research...
...awkward business, generating desire. Ford has made it into an art form. When he started designing for Gucci, the label had been almost comically cheesy, a synonym for tasteless excess. Now it's the definition of sizzle. There are people whose voices still grow hushed when they talk about the white dresses with strategically positioned cutouts from his Gucci Fall 1996 collection. And his two collections for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche and one for YSL men's have been particularly cunning. Because Yves Saint Laurent himself still designs the couture line and because of the reverence in which fashion...
...direct Hong Kong-New York routes operated by Continental Airlines, United Airlines and, from September, Cathay Pacific, receive on average the equivalent to three chest X rays. (The rays concentrate around the North Pole's magnetic attraction.) Five round-trips on these flight paths would put the traveler in excess of the recommended annual limit for exposure to radiation, experts say. Already, since the flights commenced in March, Continental and United have rerouted one each, Continental citing passenger health concerns, United radio interference from solar radiation. (United said last week it was canceling its flight from next month for business...
While they agree that the University has presented a proposal that could be theoretically extended to that length, they said that Harvard has only been willing to promise extensions beyond 20 years based on an excess of conditions. They said that many of these conditions are unacceptable to the city and would give Harvard too great a degree of control over the city...