Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worth of advertising space in newspapers round the world every year to publicize the latest speeches of Kim II Sung. Faced with a severe shortage of hard Western currency, officials speculate, North Korean diplomats turned to smuggling to support their missions and pay for the ads, sending any excess profits home to Pyongyang...
...Sheila, but here all clues are obvious, all deductions self-evident. Ross is usually adept with actors too, but in this case, Williamson's Holmes is too wired, even for someone giving up coke, and Duvall's Watson resembles a vaudeville Englishman, all jowls and bluster. This excess is echoed in the accents of Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave (who plays the abducted actress) and Georgia Brown (Frau Freud), who sound as if they are revving up to address a bund rally. Joel Grey also appears, but so briefly that he accents nothing. The ace in this poorly shuffled deck...
...accumulated subsidies would be available for the six Presidential primaries on May 25. Had the President simply sworn in the five members of the FEC already confirmed on May 18, payments could have been made within an hour or two. At that point, Reagan had unpaid claims in excess of $1 million. Of that figure, nearly $400,000 had already been audited for immediate payment. Of course, none of the Democratic candidates could receive reimbursement money either, and while it is doubtful that by that point the additional money would have changed the ultimate conclusion of the Democratic contest...
Even if the land were declared not to be a park, the presence of a playground on the tract would prevent the land from being used for building unless the playground land was declared excess by the courts...
Graham Greene and John le Carre have brought off some of the best contemporary writing about politics and morality while telling their ruthlessly ingenious stories. In their work, though, themes rise naturally out of the plot. Not so in Marathon Man, where they are strictly excess baggage...