Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From parachutes he moved on to the quintessential custom car, the dragster, whose only purpose is to accelerate over a quarter-mile straightaway to speeds in excess of 200 m.p.h. "Only an incredibly sophisticated people," he says, "would lavish expensive attention on things of such limited use." He portrayed the goggled drivers with hand-painted benday dots to make them look like newspaper photographs...
Until recently, France has insisted that the most important problem with the present system is an inflationary excess of reserves, particularly in foreign holdings of dollars. They have demanded that the U.S. and Britain must achieve "a lasting balance" in their payments as a pre-requisite for reform...
...however, in times of prosperity -and this year it has spurted faster than at any time in a decade. The surge may satisfy the fanciers, and the sellers, of Dutch beer, Swiss watches or Italian fashions, but it bothers the U.S. Government. The nation's trade surplus -the excess of exports over imports-is rapidly shrinking, thus reducing the base that the U.S. has used to support its foreign and military aid in the face of its chronic balance of payments deficit...
...that he is not recommending this "super-surgery as a panacea for the super-obese." To qualify as a candidate for jejuno-colostomy, a patient must be at least 100 lbs. overweight, must have tried and failed with other reducing regimens, and must have some medical problem associated with excess weight-a high blood-cholesterol level, for example, or abnormally high blood pressure...
...basis of total turnout, a quota (1/10 of the vote plus one) needed for election is determined. If any of the candidates has enough number one votes" to meet the quota (two or three men usually do), they are declared elected. Then any of their votes in excess of the quota are distributed to the person who is in the number two position on each ballot. Simultaneously, those candidates who have the lowest total of "number one votes" are eliminated, and their ballots are given to those in the number two position. The elimination of low-scoring candidates and redistribution...