Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Helping Hand. Venezuela has consistently refused to give its neighbors any break on oil prices. The government has announced, however, that it is setting aside all revenues received from Central American nations in excess of $6 per bbl. (the oil now sells for about $10.44 per bbl.), and is lending the money back to those nations for development projects. The interest charged is reasonable-from 6% to 8%-but the Caracas government must approve the uses to which the loans are put. To a degree, Venezuela's helping-hand programs smack of a paternalism that at another time...
Procrustes was a mythic giant with a notorious bed. If his guests were too short, he stretched them to fit. If they were too tall, he chopped off the excess. In Hearts and Minds, the giant is impersonated by the film makers. The bed is the film itself...
...mailbox-New Alchemy Institute-suggests that the small Cape Cod farm is dedicated to the ancient quest for a way of transforming base metals into gold. In fact, the farmers are pursuing an equally elusive but more modern goal: alternative methods of feeding the earth's billions without excess use of fertilizers and pesticides, waste of coal and oil, or reliance on the new hybrid grain crops, which despite their high yield are often vulnerable to disease...
...University's Institute of Human Nutrition. The dimpling effect, says Greenwood, often is caused by the loss of skin elasticity that occurs with aging. Nor is there any way to get rid of the dimpling. Exercise and proper diet may improve skin and muscle tone and make this excess adipose tissue less obvious, but it will not make it go away. Says Greenwood: "Body type, like hair color and the distance between your eyes, is inherited, and the same is true for the distance between your fatty deposits...
...players themselves or the coach. In Harvard's case, neither source existed--Coach Tom Sanders obviously doesn't believe in acting as the motivating factor, for implicit in his way of basketball thinking is the idea that the players should be able to motivate themselves, without any excess patting on the back from the coach. This way of thinking is consistent with his whole low-key approach to the game. Whether it produces victories is questionable...