Word: excessions
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...close, Rich, to get the truth," a photographer tells the correspondent in Salvador. "You get too close, you die." Sometimes Stone gets and stays too close. Much of Platoon is strong meat, indifferently prepared. His script is over-wrought?fine, the material virtually demands excess and excrescence?but it is also overwritten, with too much narration that spells out what has already been so eloquently shown. As a director, Stone does not yet have the craft to match or mediate his passion. His film works in spurts: a scene that sputters with bombast will be followed by some wrenching fire...
...been substandard, adding to a lengthening list of problems surrounding Suvarnabhumi's launch-including widespread graft allegations-and prompting Thailand's Transport Ministry to order an independent inquiry into the cracks. IOT, the Thai-Japanese contractor for the airfield surface, denied any defects in construction, blaming the damage on excess groundwater from recent floods seeping under the concrete...
...itself. For example, individuals and institutions holding real estate have been able to use their appreciating properties as collateral in order to take on larger debts, thereby increasing their consumption and driving up asset prices even more. As a result, asset prices have been ballooning at rates far in excess of nominal GDP growth. I believe we're in the midst of the greatest asset bubble ever...
...easily reaching about 4g-6g of acetaminophen a day. Do that over a few days, says Cain, and you could damage your liver. Since most people are on several different types of medications already, the liver may be more vulnerable to danger when it's hit with an excess of acetaminophen to process. And that's even before the glass of wine or bottle of beer that many of us like to have at the end of day; alcohol also puts the liver to work, and the combination of everything at once may be the perfect storm that sends...
Presently, sectarian violence is the biggest threat to stability in Iraq. Earlier this week, 70 Iraqi citizens were killed when a truck loaded with wheat exploded in a crowd of Shiites looking for work. A team of Iraqi and American epidemiologists estimates the “excess death toll” in Iraq at around 655,000 since March 2003. Because continuing to send troops to Iraq has not proven to have a stabilizing effect on the region, the Baker commission’s suggestions should be carefully considered...