Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diabolical device by China "to force Japan onto the path of its preparations for a third world war." Says the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya: "China is striving to subordinate the African states to its dictates," in hopes of using thinly populated areas of the continent to resettle its excess population...
...speech at this year's dinner, President Bok followed last year's critique of the medical profession with a discussion of the problems of excess litigation in American society and the overbundance of lawyers...
Teddy White is interested in excitement. He has been ever since China. But he indulges this interest to excess. He falls too easily for the big names--Chou En Lai, Stillwell, MacArthur, Mao, Eisenhower and Kennedy. To White, these people are all bigger and better than life. He loses his perspective which causes the reader to lose respect for White's credibility...
...under the earlobe and behind the ear. Whenever possible, the incision is placed above the hairline so the scar is not readily visible. The skin is then separated away or "undermined" from the underlying muscle and fat and pulled taut to eliminate folds and bags. Finally, the excess skin is trimmed away and the flap of skin is sewed back into place. In the past few years, surgeons have expanded the technique to sometimes include tightening up the muscles underneath the skin of the neck and jaw to give more striking and lasting results. If all goes well, the facelift...
...late 1960s, the U.S. routinely piled up comfortable surpluses almost without trying. Since then, rapidly rising imports of oil and manufactured goods combined with the relative slackening of the sales of American products abroad have tipped the trade balance perilously out of kilter. In the past three years, the excess of what the U.S. bought over what it sold abroad rocketed to a total of $31 billion, and this year the deficit is expected to hit a record $33 billion. So last week when the President finally announced his long-awaited new National Export Policy, he conceded that "there...