Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart is the first organ that the cold blood reaches after it is dripped in through an arm vein, and the heart is sensitive to cold. Excess chilling can easily cause it to stop or go into useless twitching (fibrillation) from which the patient may never recover...
Last year the G.N.P. rose 7% to a high of $1.2 billion, and in the last eight months alone savings deposits climbed 26%. Some money is actually going begging. "There's one bank in Guatemala," says Banker Julio Veilman, "that has $5,000,000 in excess funds that it can't place." Certainly, Guatemala is not without social and political problems. Of its 4,500,000 people, 3,900,000 still live in the country's corrugated outback. They are mostly broad-faced descendants of the Maya Indians, and every year more and more of them drift...
Reporters and columnists alike might well have been making amends for earlier sins of excess, for the extra emotion that once showed so strongly in story after anti-Goldwater story. Or perhaps the press was just plain bored by a dull campaign, had lost interest in interpreting it. Newsmen traveling with both Johnson and Goldwater may have decided that there was no longer any doubt at all about who was going to be the winner, that further displays of partisanship on their part were unnecessary and redundant...
...future a student will be exempt from paying tuition for the fifth course only when his tutorial credits "are in excess of the 16.5 courses required for the degree." What this means, paradoxically, is that the student enrolled in tutorial will not be charged for taking a fifth course--only for dropping...
...week Dr. Daniel Stowens, a Louisville pathologist, said he had found the explanation of H.M.D. and a simple, effective treatment: Epsom salts enemas. He told the College of American Pathologists that he had concluded from post-mortem examinations that H.M.D. victims suffered from an inability to get rid of excess water. Since the premature baby's kidneys may not be up to the job of ridding the body of excess water, Dr. Stowens suggested helping them with the Epsom salts enemas. In eight months, 28 babies with "severe respiratory distress and all clinical signs of hyaline membrane disease" were...