Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lipoproteins, or HDLs. LDLs are the villains of cardiology: these complex molecules ferry cholesterol through the blood vessels, allowing life-threatening deposits to accumulate within artery walls. Each 1% decrease in LDL levels lowers the risk of heart disease 2%. The "good" HDLs work as garbage trucks, sopping up excess cholesterol and inhibiting arterial deposits. Basically, these two substances make up the total human blood- cholesterol level, an indicator that signals vulnerability to coronary illness...
...Plaza Hotel in Amman. Finally, tired but triumphant, King Hussein of Jordan took the podium at the closing ceremony to proclaim that the 15th summit of the league had produced nothing less than a "new birth" of Arab unity. The Jordanian monarch could be forgiven a bit of rhetorical excess. For while deep divisions in the Arab world remained, Hussein had indeed produced a remarkable and unexpected achievement. He had coaxed radical Syria and its inscrutable President, Hafez Assad, back into the Arab fold...
...program will forgive the entire loan payments owed by graduates who earn under $15,000 annually. In addition, the program stipulates that alumni with salaries between $15,000 and $30,000 a year will be permitted to defer loan payments in excess of 10 percent of their gross income. The income ceiling will rise with the rate of inflation...
...against the primitive level of farming that prevailed before the reforms. They question whether such high yields can be sustained solely through intensive hand-cultivation of crops. Mechanizing the Chinese countryside would bring about needed changes in farming, but at a high price: widespread rural unemployment. To soak up excess labor and concentrate land in the hands of the most efficient peasants, China has launched a rural industrialization drive that has resulted in smokestacks, water towers and silos sprouting up in the provinces as fast as rice seedlings...
...Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968). On occasion, Huntington has extended this argument to the United States, suggesting that a little less "excess of democracy" would cure the distemper of the American body politic. Huntington, "The United States," in Michael Crozier, Samuel Huntington and Joji Watanuki, The Crisis of Democracy (New York: New York University Press...