Word: excessive
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...cause of grass loss is an increase of sediment, which blocks the light that plants need in order to carry on photosynthesis. Another problem is the bay's excess of nitrogen and phosphorus. These nutrients "fertilize" the bay and promote the proliferation of algae. When algae decompose, they rob the water of its life-giving oxygen, killing the grasses and the creatures that depend on them. There are areas of the bay-submarine deserts-where nothing at all can live...
...main reason for the good news is that cold weather caused higher than normal heating-oil demand during the last half of the winter. That, in turn, resulted in the production of more gasoline; two gallons of gasoline are produced whenever a gallon of heating oil is refined. The excess fuel went into storage tanks and is now helping to depress prices. The U.S. has gasoline stocks amounting to 250 million bbl., fully 13% more than at the same time last summer...
Instead in his new Lords Ladies and Gentlemen. Daniel reveals some of the lighter moments of his extensive, eventful career from his meetings with kings to his hobnobbing with presidents. The book can justly be criticized for an excess of fluttery, for dwelling on the transient rather than the substantial Daniel doesn't care. He says there has been a "surfeit" of overly serious books. "The world is not waiting for my opinions," he adds. "But, I've met a lot of interesting people and in the process have acquired humorous stories--some revealing and some devastating. I just didn...
Agee suffered his first heart attack in 1951 after playing tennis with John Huston while at work on the script of The African Queen. It was too late for a prince of excess to slow down. He went on spinning out great ideas for the future, as he always had. At one time, a partial list of projects included two full-length historical films. One would concern Tories vs. Loyalists, the other the age of revolution. Both would be "mystical," "Virgilian" epics of a "prenatal nation." These were in addition to an "antiCommunist manifesto," a "new form of movie short...
Though they still cannot be considered economy vehicles, new motor homes are more fuel efficient than earlier models. Riverside, Calif.-based Fleetwood, the industry leader with 20% of the market, cut excess weight and restyled exteriors to make its RVs more aerodynamic and squeeze more miles out of a gallon of fuel. The company's 27-footers now get 15 m.p.g. on the highway at 50 m.p.h., twice the mileage of a decade ago. Winnebago (1983 sales: $239 million) developed a front-wheel-drive model powered by a Renault diesel engine. One version, called the LeSharo, gets...