Word: excessions
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...almost identical, to the swagger of a revolutionary. Both are tough men; both live too near death to allow for love and compassion, unless it is the kind of love that takes half an hour. When Americans talk about "those barbaric Iranians (North Vietnamese, Chinese, Nicaraguans)," they mean the excess, the cruelty that grows inside men and women tough enough to throw off oppression. Dogs of War admits that cruelty and confesses the crimes that accompany the fight for dignity. But it shows even as buildings blaze and babies scream, that war can be worthwhile as long as the cause...
...best news for taxpayers anywhere in overtaxed America. Thanks to levies on all the oil being pumped out of Alaska's North Slope, the state had piled up huge excess revenues. Last year the legislature passed two bills doling out $300 million of it to most of Alaska's 457,000 residents in the form of repeals and rebates of state income taxes and earnings from an oil royalty fund. Cause for jubilation among all Alaskans, right...
Smith and Lewis allegedly first made a series of legitimate deposits in the bank, some in excess of $500,000. That was done so that bank officials would not become suspicious later when MAPS began transferring large sums of money. Then someone working for Wells Fargo, purportedly Lewis, began to type bogus instructions into a computer terminal, perhaps transferring money from other deposits into the MAPS accounts. When Smith later started making large withdrawals, he attracted no notice. After all, he was a lord of the boxing rings and regularly paid fighters six-figure purses. Three weeks ago, however...
...first opportunity in years for a full-scale star turn. "Fort Apache" is the headquarters of New York City's 41st precinct, which encompasses the toughest black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods of the South Bronx. Newman plays a patrolman who is stuck in grade largely because of an excess of street-bred compassion. When the hard-nosed new precinct commander, Edward Asner, decides to shape up the 41st by launching wholesale arrests to nab suspects in the murder of two policemen, the residents run riot. During one fracas, Newman sees a colleague hurl an innocent youth to his death...
...since the classic definition of inflation is an excess of demand over supply, a balance between the two achieved by increasing supply should result in the dwindling of inflation...