Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Baryshnikov's life echoes Gene Kelly's refrain, "Gotta Dance." It does not require much stimulation to get Misha's blood stirring. If anything, he has an excess of high-voltage energy. It has been there as long as he can remember. Both he and his mother, a dress fitter in Riga, Latvia, recognized it when he was a child, and they spent a great deal of time trying to channel it. "I was interested in everything," he says, "football, fencing, gymnastics. I even sang in the children's choir. I was also very...
...Angeles Mayor Thomas Bradley is setting out cherry tomatoes in rows of planters he ordered for city hall's fifth-floor terrace. Governor Milton Shapp has become the jolly green giant of Pennsylvania by getting 25 state institutions to provide excess land, plowing, water and fertilizer for would-be sod-busters. In Milwaukee, county and city governments are leasing 2,500 plots to the public at $8 each per year. From coast to coast, gardening clinics are packing in S.R.O. audiences with Hoe-It-Yourself lectures ranging from Coping with Cutworm to Installing a French Intensive Bed (a system...
...sets a ceiling on lawyers' fees, and establishes a panel to screen malpractice claims and weed out nuisance suits. The measure also establishes a fund, to be created from a surcharge on insurance premiums, to ease the burden on insurance companies by covering any award in excess of $100,000. Idaho has enacted a law limiting liability to $150,000 in cases involving one person, $300,000 in cases involving more than one, and establishing a limit on fees for lawyers...
...emergency, or "Band-Aid" bills to guarantee malpractice coverage through the end of the year. Bills to limit liability or create state-sponsored insurance companies are being introduced in Tennessee, Michigan, Oregon, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. Congress is considering federal legislation that would reimburse private insurers for awards in excess of $200,000, establish arbitration and screening panels for malpractice claims, and spread payments of awards out over several years to ease their impact on insurance companies...
...since it involves our plane." Even if the consortium does split, General Dynamics will probably remain the arms dealer of the century: sales to U.S. allies in the Middle East, Asia and Latin America could bring total orders for the F-16 to more than 3,000-worth in excess of $15 billion...