Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maintaining a notoriously low-paid nonunion staff. Shaw does not divulge his salary ("It's between me and the IRS"), but insists that it is not comparable to the millions paid to his network rivals. In any case, the exemplar of CNN spareness takes a dim view of such excess. Says he: "Beware of anchormen who ride in limousines...
Results from the British trial were less conclusive. In a six-year study of 5,139 physicians, half took 500 mg of aspirin every day. Oxford University researchers found no reduction in heart attacks. They did see, however, a small but troubling excess of strokes. "Some things are clear," says Sir Richard Doll, who led the investigation. "For anybody who has had a heart attack in the past, it is beneficial to take a small dose of aspirin daily. That's unanimous. The dispute is over what healthy people should...
...Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power plant took eleven years to build, cost $4.5 billion in excess of its original $1 billion price and has yet to churn out a single kilowatt. The plant has generated only trouble so far, which it produced in abundance last week. Public Service of New Hampshire, owner of the largest single stake in Seabrook, a 35.6% share, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, becoming the first major investor-owned utility to do so since the Depression. Though Seabrook was ready to run by the fall of 1986, its start-up has been delayed by political and public...
...used, he said, only "against those acting violently." But Major General Amram Mitzna, the central front commander, admitted in a press conference that the "soldiers are not behaving as well as we had wished" and that "no more than a few" had been court-martialed for using excess force against the Palestinians. He added, somewhat apologetically, "It is confusing, not the policy and the orders, but this kind of mission, this kind of thing the soldiers have to do." It was indeed confusing, and many of Israel's best friends abroad were still struggling to make sense of a policy...
Lacroix's is the art of excess, and it works in part because of the knowledge of vanished grandeur he acquired while studying the classics and art history in college. Says Caroline Rennolds Milbank, author of Couture: "Since he knows all the good things that have happened in history, when women lived to look beautiful, he has a bigger vocabulary than a normal contemporary couturier. Any one of them has available to him the best embroiderer or flowermaker, but Lacroix probably has a bigger sense of the possibilities from having directly studied the past...