Word: excessive
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This initial ordering could change substantially with the addition of redistributed votes, especially Sullivan's 800 excess votes...
Once a candidate has surpassed the quota, his excess votes will be re-distributed among the candidates who were marked number two on his ballots. If those candidates also go over the quota, the ballots will be withdrawn again and credited to the contenders in the third position. This process continues until nine council candidates and six school committee aspirants have reached the quota figure...
...said to me this: "Of course it's so of course it's not correct. It isn't right for some of us here to have so much, and others have so little. It isn't right. It isn't necessary. We don't need all this surfeit and excess...
...compensation itself must eventually be decided by the Chilean courts. But they asserted that the new government believes that Allende made an improper calculation of the compensation due. When their properties were taken over, Anaconda estimated its losses at $462 million; Kennecott calculated $365 million. But Allende figured that "excess profits" earned in the past left the companies owing money to Chile...
...front of the car from rising too high on takeoff. But Jenkins and his crew of six mechanics make sure that the resemblance is only paint-deep. To prepare the car for its ordeals, the team marinates its body in an acid bath to eat away 120 Ibs. of excess weight. The hood and rear deck are replaced with lightweight Fiberglas panels. His $70,000 engine produces nearly 650 h.p. against a normal...