Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dimpled blond star of the team. Accustomed to the easygoing ways of former Coach George Wilson, the players were dumbfounded when Shula announced that there would be four practice sessions a day, beginning before breakfast and lasting until nightfall. Overweight players were fined $10 for every pound in excess of what Shula determined was their "optimum performance level." When 250-lb. Running Back Larry Csonka was ordered to trim off 15 Ibs., he sputtered, "But I haven't been that light since high school." Replied Shula: "You will function better at that level." Csonka pared down...
...authorize acquisition of 547,000 of Big Cypress' acres. The reason, he said, is to save them "from private development." Nixon thus outflanked Democratic Senators who already had mapped plans to protect the swamp. The cost of federal acquisition, said Interior Secretary Rogers Morton, will be "considerably in excess of $100 million," spread over the next decade...
Cambridge adopted what is known as the Cincinnati Rule in 1941 specifying that the excess votes be calculated before the count and every third or fourth vote be redistributed to the second choices...
Peter Brook is nothing if not decisive. He senses a certain unwieldiness to the text and without hesitation cuts whatever he considers to be excess. Shakespeare's introductory scene between the Earls of Gloucester and Kent is eliminated; the film begins immediately with the parcelling of the kingdom among the three daughters. The first words are Lear's "Know we have divided-in three our kingdom...", Brook thrusting us into crisis at once. Within five minutes Cordelia has already refused to publicly acclaim her love for her father. Lear has disowned her, and the central dramatic movement...
...plump, the premiums are often lower than what most major insurance companies ask on regular policies. For the mountainous, the plan offers coverage that conventional insurance companies will not sell, because grossly excess weight is a serious health risk. For women 5 ft. 7 in. tall, for example, American International Life Assurance Co., which underwrites the policies, specifies premiums based on weights ranging from a billowy 159 lbs. ($13.31 for a $5,000 policy at age 40) to a hippopotamine 302 lbs. ($53.66). Policyholders consigned to Class VI, the most cholesterol-clogged division, pay about four times the premium assessed...