Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...studying Project Rulison, the Colorado Committee cites the results of New Mexico's Project Gasbuggy, the only previous explosion of this sort. "The Gasbuggy experiment caused about a sevenfold increase in gas yield," they report, "but the value of the excess gas was much less than the cost of the nuclear explosive. More important, the gas released from Gasbuggy is too radioactive for use." AEC spokesmen say that the Gasbuggy blast was designed mainly as an experiment to measure the resulting radiation, not necessarily to produce commercially usable natural gas. Because of new safeguards, they predict, Rulison...
...devices and counseling more widely available, particularly to poor people. Nonsense, says a scientist writing in the British journal, New Society. According to Peter J. Smith, a lecturer in geophysics at the University of Liverpool, the problem - at least in the U.S. -is not lack of birth control but excess desire for children...
...effect in 1971. Under its provisions, federal assistance for the aged, the blind and the disabled would continue unchanged, except that benefits would be increased. A uniform floor of $65 per month for all such recipients would be established, with the Treasury chipping in 25% of the cost in excess of $65. The largest and most controversial segment of the present welfare system-aid to families with dependent children (AFDC)-would be eliminated...
...porphyria-darkening of the urine, which frequently turns the color of port wine. The discoloration is caused by the presence of porphyrins, purple-red pigments contained in every cell of the human body and responsible for the red color of blood. In porphyria a metabolic defect results in an excess of porphyrins and their byproducts...
This kind of film is very hard to pull off, since a few moments of excess and we are trapped in an atmosphere as pretentious as the one being chide. Thankfully, Agnes Varda's style is clear and elegant, perfect for the balance necessary to make Les Creatures work. Her frames are clear and simple and her cutting so clean that the most outlandish of sequences (an indescribable interrupted eating scene) seems logical...