Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maldistribution of health care and the related problem of a physician "glut"--an overabundance of doctors in some areas--came to light five years ago in a government report that predicted by 1990 that there would be an excess of physicians in almost every specialty at the expense of community and general medicine, Dean for Students and Alumni at Harvard Medical School Daniel D. Federman '49 says...
Despite his animosity toward the U.S., he admires George Washington and the man he calls Ibrahim Lincoln. Gaddafi's only personal excess and sign of indulgence seems to be his revolutionary wardrobe. He is a desert dandy, with a gold-embroidered and tasseled uniform for every conceivable occasion and all manner of robes, capes and turbans. Although he claims, "I seldom look at myself in the mirror," his vanity, his posturing narcissism, is reminiscent of an actor whose only role is himself...
...excise carefully what the city's leaders saw as the cancer of Move, the city needed a "magic bullet." All it had was a giant shotgun--10,000 rounds of ammunition and a huge blaze, an excess like the impotent overkill of nuclear weapons...
...must take many others into account before reaching a decision. We must see whether there remain any less drastic policies to achieve reform without risking excess violence and revolution. There probably...
...nation that venerates excess. I drank this much, or I drove so fast. In high school, vomiting is a badge of honor...