Word: excessions
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Some students in the class thought that the explosion was caused by the heat building up within a closed system. One student said the elbow joints connecting the flask to the collecting rod did not provide an outlet to release excess...
What do a couple of big private universities have in common with the "white collar" crimes of overleveraged corporate conglomerates of the '80s? True, the decade of corporate excess left even the academic world tainted--from the president of Stanford University, who "appropriated" federal grants for home improvements, to the Yale president who decided to forego his comfortable (albeit quasi-academic) appointment to go into business in a completely forprofit "educational" enterprise. Still, it seems odd that the government should focus its antitrust wrath on MIT and eight Ivy League schools...
...many incoming first-year students, college is the place to discard the restrictions that shaped their adolescent lives. To that end, many use their first encounters with alcohol as opportunities to drink to excess. Residence in the Yard makes a student an obvious target for enforcement of the new, expanded law. Predictably, several first-year parties were shut down during orientation week and shopping week. As usual for first offenses that occur on campus, no students face legal prosecution...
Kaurismaki resents the opera's sentimental excess, but it isn't clear what he proposes to replace it with. The film is too detached to be convincing as either comedy or melodrama. Kaurismaki's trio of impecunious artists (for some reason, the philosopher Colline has been banished from the film) seem trapped, almost frightened by the camera...
...board's statement says that Moran claimedthat she disposed of the excess medication and didnot take...