Word: excessions
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...other informal outdoor gatherings." As for caviar, "never take more than a teaspoonful, or you will have everyone glaring at you, thinking there won't be any left for them." Like most arbiters since the Middle Ages, Tish believes that "burping is nature's way of getting rid of excess gas, and suppressing it may be physically harmful...
...growing areas of government. It is also fast becoming one of the most criticized, even though nobody denies the need for some regulation or the benefits of clean air, pure water, safe products, healthy workers and employed minorities. An alliance of liberals and conservatives now protest that regulation is excessive and the benefits are not worth the price. They have found an ally in Jimmy Carter, who promises to battle regulatory excess as part of his Stage II anti-inflation plan. And not a moment too soon. "Our regulatory system," asserts Assistant Commerce Secretary Jerry Jasinowski, "is out of control...
...fact on which there is no debate is that Japan's huge trade surplus with the U.S. is growing bigger all the time (see chart). The excess of what Japan sells in the U.S. over what it buys from America reached $9.3 billion in the first nine months of this year, and is expected to hit a record $12.4 billion...
...diabolical device by China "to force Japan onto the path of its preparations for a third world war." Says the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya: "China is striving to subordinate the African states to its dictates," in hopes of using thinly populated areas of the continent to resettle its excess population...
...make transistors and chips, scientists "dope" a semiconducting material ike silicon with impurities, creating regions that have either an excess or a deiciency of electrons-and thus are negatively (n zones) or positively (p zones) charged. If two n zones, say, are separated by a p zone, they act like an electronic switch, or transistor; a small voltage in the p zone controls fluctuations in the current flowing between the n zones. But every time an excess electron is released in the n zone to join the current flow, it leaves behind a positively charged spot. Because opposite charges attract...