Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public again on April 17, at a press conference, to say there were some 30 institutions that had confirmed his results but were reluctant to go public with the information, in part "for legal reasons." But Robert Huggins, a Stanford materials scientist, had no legal qualms. He reported excess heat from a cold-fusion device tucked into a red picnic cooler. Because he performed a control experiment to rule out a conventional chemical reaction, this was the strongest confirmation yet. The next day, Francesco Scaramuzzi, a bearded physicist with the Italian National Agency for Nuclear and Alternative Energy, reported what...
...much of their attention on the quest for cold fusion. But they were not alone. At Brigham Young, a team headed by physicist Steven Jones had been working on a similar experiment for at least two years. Jones had also found evidence of fusion, but did not get the excess heat production that Pons and Fleischmann were observing. The two groups were evidently unaware of each other until last September, when Jones was asked to review a Pons-Fleischmann grant application. To his surprise, Jones says, he realized that he and the Utah researchers were following parallel paths. He made...
...Pons and Fleischmann mean that they are necessarily wrong. But the burden of proof remains on them. So far, they have failed to demonstrate convincingly that they have indeed produced a new sort of fusion. And if the two chemists cannot think of any way to explain the excess heat in their experiment without resorting to nuclear reactions, others can. Chemist Linus Pauling, a Nobel laureate and himself something of an iconoclast, thinks that when absorbing high concentrations of deuterium, the palladium lattice may become unstable and deteriorate, releasing heat...
...boys were not angry. They were "wilding." Wilding is not rage, it is anarchy. Anarchy is an excess of freedom. Anarchy is the absence of rules, of ethical limits, of any moral sense. These boys are psychic amputees. They have lost, perhaps never developed, that psychic appendage we call conscience...
...properties are hitting a real estate market that is generally far weaker than during the go-go days of the 1970s and early 1980s. The overbuilding of offices and condos has produced a huge surplus of such structures all across the Sunbelt, and some excess properties even in Northeast states like Massachusetts and Connecticut. "What you're dealing with is the aftermath of , a massive speculative excess. It tends to drive down the value of all real estate," says Austin-based banking analyst Alex Sheshunoff. To make matters worse, mortgage rates have risen a full percentage point in the past...