Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first TV appearance this Saturday, Marlene Dietrich has been paid more, minute for minute, than any other star in television history, something in excess of $250,000. If she had been Cleopatra emerging from a 90-oar barge in the pollution of the Hudson, with 100 eunuchs throwing rose petals in her path, the executives at CBS would not have offered more-or been more excited at meeting her. Still, Dietrich is not happy. Not happy...
BOOM is a word that forecasters hesitate to use because it suggests-besides the delights of prosperity-a period of heated excess that sometimes leads to bust. But as they contemplate the prospects for the U.S. economy in 1973, the prophets are hard put to find any descriptive other than boom for what they foresee. The outlook is for a second straight year of strong growth in jobs, income, production, sales, profits-so much so that one of the prognosticators' problems is keeping their predictions optimistic enough. Lately they have had to add a few billion dollars to their...
...NASA technicians frantically traced the source of the trouble, rumors swept the cape that there had been an explosion in the first stage of the rocket. Actually, NASA explained later, the early burst of flame had been a burn-off of excess fuel: the pumps had continued to run briefly after the shutdown. The real problem, it turned out, was a defect in the Terminal Countdown Sequencer, which supervises the complex operations in the last minutes before a launch...
Other vitamins can actually be harmful. Vitamin A can be dangerous if taken in excess. Overdoses of vitamin D can produce demineralization of bone, resulting in multiple fractures after minimal trauma. Though lack of vitamins may cause health problems, the pills are not-and should not be-regarded as panaceas. "People," says Philip White, an American Medical Association nutrition expert, "have been led to believe that positive health benefits will occur: super vitality, great endurance, freedom from illness, resistance to infection. Supposedly these benefits result from supplementing an already adequate diet. They cannot...
...LOVER'S DIET, devised by Dr. Abraham Friedman, at least sounds like fun. He urges the overweight to "reach for a mate instead of a plate," and exercise off their excess weight through intercourse. But unless they follow Friedman's low-fat and low-carbohydrate diet as well, they are unlikely to shed many pounds. A single act of intercourse, according to Friedman, burns an average of only 200 calories...