Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aside from their purely social function, fraternities also traditionally have been an outlet for excess tension and anxiety. Some people like to call these things pranks but they're really just activities like making tie-dye shirts and ashtrays and wallets when you were a kid at camp. Probably that kid went a little far last year who stood naked in front of the Amherst President's house: the president's wife answered the door. But what's a little toilet paper here and there? At Florida State University last week, one fraternity brother fired a shot into the neck...
...months have been predicting that the business was about to undergo a series of such mergers, which would reduce the number of major steel producers from eight to as few as three. Executives contend that by combining resources, fewer rank-and-file steelworkers and middle managers would be needed, excess capacity would be reduced, and spending for raw materials to produce steel would be lessened. That consolidation would make U.S. firms more efficient and better able to compete against foreign steelmakers, which have captured one-fifth of the American market. Officials of LTV and Republic claimed that their merger would...
...flight that was, at best, bittersweet: a dazzling display of the space shuttle's tremendous potential and yet a dismal reminder of the continuing frailty of technology in challenging the cosmos. The troubles ranged from the disastrous loss of two highly sophisticated communications satellites, valued in excess of $150 million, to a rash of lesser mishaps: a clogged toilet, the mysterious blowup of a ballyhooed navigational experiment, and a sudden case of the cramps in the shuttle's Canadian-built mechanical...
Although the number of actual diseases attributable to the water is small, Associate Professor of Biostatistics Dr. Stephen W. Lagakos said, "any excess is too much...
...flights. The components will include two or more cylinder-shaped modules, each with the volume of a large recreational vehicle. These will serve as working and living ("habitation modules" in NASAese) quarters for the astronauts. Solar panels will catch sunlight and turn it into electricity. Huge radiators will shed excess heat from the station's operations. In addition, there will be external pallets on which various scientific instruments can be mounted, one or more remote-controlled cranes to move equipment about and at least one docking port for visits by the space shuttle...