Word: excessive
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...notion that developed agricultural nations with excess production potential can buffer the hungry and increasingly populous nations through donations of food grains on an ever increasing scale has finite limitations. Already there is some evidence that the people of developed nations cannot indefinitely accept the progressively higher taxes and reduced living standards implicit in continuing large-scale and growing foreign...
...Lieutenant Governor. Carey was careful not to give Wilson an issue; he came on as tough as his conservative opponent on crime, inflation and big spending, though somehow leaving the impression of a more generous spirit. While Wilson bogged down in circumlocutions, Carey reached dizzying heights of oratorical excess. After one rendition of Happy Days, he told his audience: "I hate to stop the music, but if you want to hear the harmony of this team being in symphonic rapture ..." He broke off to laugh at his own hyperbole...
...subcontinent, great floods have ruined the Bangladesh harvest. Far off in Africa's Sahel region, six years of drought have only recently been interrupted by rain. In the U.S., both the corn and soybean crops will fall far below expectations this year because of a freakish succession of excess spring rains, summer drought and early fall frost...
Bryson, for one, blames the earth's cooling on an increase of dust in the atmosphere. Acting like tiny mirrors, dust particles reflect some of the sunlight striking the earth's atmosphere, depriving the surface of solar heat. Bryson believes that the excess dust comes in part from volcanic eruptions, which seem to have increased in recent years. Still other atmosphere polluters could be: 1) extensive land clearing and deforestation by slash-and-burn techniques, and 2) the increased use of fossil fuels, which release soot into...
...that Harvard would pay for the trip "because we don't want to be under any obligation." By current rates for air travel that amounts to at least $7000 and possibly $10,200--for air travel alone! I think that it is wonderful that Harvard has so great an excess of resources...