Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Physical Review Letters, Reines reported that he and a team of Case Institute and South African scientists detected seven natural neutrinos-not many, but a hopeful beginning. These neutrinos, each of which registered energies well in excess of 10 billion electron volts, presumably were produced by the interaction of primary cosmic rays with the earth's atmosphere. Except for their superhigh energies, the natural neutrinos appeared to be about the same as those created...
...Higher concentrations occurring naturally (up to 8 p.p.m. in Bartlett, Texas) have had no detectable ill effects on the growth or health of children or adults. But because they do no good, and lead to mottling of the teeth, these excess amounts should be artificially reduced. Bartlett and Britton, S. Dak. (6.7 p.p.m.) are cutting their natural levels down to about 1 p.p.m. A 150-lb. man who drinks 1-p.p.m. fluoridated water would have to drink a bathtubful, or 70 to 100 quarts daily, to get the minimum overdose that seems to affect the thyroid gland. The overdoses needed...
Every high school principal likes to see his graduates go on to college, but a lot of people in New Haven think that Hillhouse High School Principal Robert T. LeVine, 57−or someone in his office−carried that laudable ambition to excess. In December 1963, Yale University's Admissions Dean Arthur Howe complained that many Hillhouse applications to Yale showed higher grades than those the students actually got. In plain words, somebody seemed to be doctoring the marks to get marginal students into college...
...diabetes and rheumatic fever combined. It is now clear, says Dr. di Sant'-Agnese, that C.F. affects far more than the pancreas and lungs. It involves the sweat glands, of which there are about 2,000,000, and also the salivary glands. In fact, it is through an excess of salt in the sweat that C.F. is most readily diagnosed, and confirmation is usually found in the saliva. C.F. is inherited through a recessive gene, so both parents must be carriers for a child to be afflicted. Even then, only one in four of their children, on average, will...
...presidencies command salaries in excess of $150,000. Filling them would earn fees of about $40,000 each for Howell, which like most other major recruiters charges companies between 20% and 25% of the executive's first year's salary-plus expenses. Howell's average...