Word: excessive
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...tons of tomatoes and 723 tons of pears. Belgium followed suit, as did The Netherlands. This year, with much more bountiful harvests, the German government has refused "on moral grounds" to be party to the destruction of fruit. Government authorities are now weighing the possibility of distilling the excess fruit into schnapps. Germany's Butterberg problem is even more serious. Nearly 30% of the profits of German farming comes from milk products. Common Market regulations allow the government to support the price of butter at the 75-cents-a-pound level. This means in effect that the dairy must...
...raises in their rents as leases come up for renewal on Sept. 30, the traditional date for residential lease expirations. Many landlords, says Frederic S. Herman, the city's commissioner of rent and housing maintenance, are demanding "increases of 40%, 50% and 60%-and a few in excess of 100%." In scores of instances, the exorbitant hikes amount to nothing less than an old-fashioned eviction. "It's frightful. I can't find anything that I can afford," says Patricia Oberle, a young Manhattan medical secretary. She has been looking since February for another place to live...
...hand, Dr. Joseph F. Fletcher of Massachusetts' Episcopal Theological School, the nation's leading exponent of situation ethics, argues that "the morality of pot depends on circumstances. Social drinking is not immoral, social smoking is not immoral, social pot is not immoral-unless they are used to excess...
...Alan Kekwick and colleagues have found that people on a voluntary starvation regimen produce, somewhere in their bodies, a "fat mobilizing substance" (FMS). The substance speeds and eases the process whereby fat stored in the body can be withdrawn and utilized by the body as energy. Excess FMS is excreted in the urine...
Like most shows on the first leg of the road, this one carries excess baggage. Several of Drake's songs--"Just for Today," "In Vino Veritas," "Let Me Lead the Way," "The Things We Think We Are," and "The Parable of the Monkey"--have nothing going for them and should be ditched on that count. The first is corny, the second ludicrous, the third irrelevant, the fourth bad, and the fifth incomprehensible. By way of compensation, I'd suggest that if ever a name deserved to light a lyric, "Ftatateeta" does; that Caesar and Rufio might voice their contradictory opinions...