Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other personal services given short shrift by the centralized economy. Homebuilding turned into a lively cottage industry that helped ease the island nation's chronic housing shortage and rewarded the handy. Faring best of all were the country's farmers, who were allowed to sell items produced in excess of government quotas on the open market. "Some farmers became millionaires," says TV Commentator Roberto Agudo. "They began to think of nothing but acquiring things...
...learns anything from either section of the QRR. Most freshmen prepare for both in a 30-minute cram the night before the test. They stuff the few necessary facts into their minds, spill them onto their papers and into the computers and, after the test, promptly dispose of the excess information. The phrases "median" and "standard deviation" once again are absolutely meaningless. Along with tours of Widener and parties at Weld, they are nothing more than bad memories of freshman week...
Though Kinison stretches the bounds of good taste, his bombast can be furiously funny. His rantings against women, for instance, may outrage some, but they are a cathartic antidote to cool yuppie relationship-speak, brazen in their sheer excess. "I'm not worried about hell," he says, " 'cause I was ((exploding into a shout)) married for two f years! Hell would be like Club Med!" A stint at the piano for a song to his ex-girlfriend turns into a string of obscenities ending with "I want my records back!" His blasphemous accounts of the Last Supper and the Resurrection...
...theory, this was to include all disciplinary cases involving politically motivated actions, crimes by members of wealthy or Mafia-connected families, or drug shipments in excess of $1 billion. In practice, though, virtually every disciplinary case wound up before the CRR, since technically the Ad Board was limited to cases of false advertising...
...currency swap? Company officials say they want to create a "total environment" that makes visitors forget the outside world. Perhaps they also figure that customers will keep excess Disney dough as a memento, rather than cash...