Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was a time when the pro football exhibition season, like baseball spring training, was geared to getting players into shape. It was a time for testing rookies, rendering the excess fat off veterans, and giving fans a chance to see some scrimmaging for a nominal price. No longer. With owners trying to make a buck wherever they can, preseason games have turned into a top-price gouge for fans (tickets can run as high as $10). More important, the early games can be dangerous, injury-inducing torture for athletes forced to play hard before their bodies are ready...
Died. Dr. Irwin M. Stillman, 79, co-author of The Doctor's Quick Weight Loss Diet (1967) and other bestselling weight-control guides, whose drastic prescription for obesity-quick shedding of excess pounds through an extreme highprotein, low-carbohydrate regimen-brought him a wide following as well as much criticism from more conventional nutrition experts; of a heart attack; in North Miami...
...from being considered so often a Narcissus and Hermes, excess wore me out, killed...
...final price of an average car, for an overall increase of 4.7%. GM Chairman Thomas Murphy contends that the increases will not off set the company's rising production costs, which have gone up an average $375 per car since last fall. Even so, motorists will pay in excess of $1,000 more for an average '76 car than they paid for an average '73 model...
...subtle homage to nature's irregularity continues on the inside too: there is hardly a right angle to be found in the entire building. Indeed, the interior layout seems so complicated as to be al most recklessly baroque. Yet Aalto holds off excess by designing every light fixture, door handle and stair tread to fit the whole - and suit the user...