Word: excessive
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...almost every evolutionary stratagem, they proliferated in number and diversity. Some developed thick protective plating, comparable to that of modern-day armadillos. Ankylosaurus had armor on its skull, knobby stubs over its back and legs, and possessed a tail that ended in a huge bony club. Perhaps to shed excess body heat, Stegosaurus sprouted triangular-shaped fins on its back. Thanks to such biological cunning, within only a few million years, the dinosaurs became the overlords of their antediluvian domain...
...Richfield Co. funded $5 million in improvements to the 60-year-old Coliseum (Olympic capacity: 92,516), including a state-of-the-art synthetic track of German-made red Rekortan. Lacking the three to five years for the soft surface to shake down, the committee has been vacuuming up excess granules...
...dollar has been riding high, perhaps too high and for too long. Now the almighty dollar's very robustness is creating alarm both in the U.S. and abroad. Says Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "As the ancient Greeks said, 'An individual's faults are virtues carried to excess.' When the dollar is excessively strong, it hurts our trade and that hurts jobs in the U.S. Too much of a good thing...
...CLASS OF '86 AT HARVARD. I WAS NOT EXPELLED IN '87 NOR ANY OTHER YEAR. I NEVER DID ANYTHING VERY BAD AT HARVARD NOR ANYTHING VERY GOOD EITHER. I WAS RUSTICATED IN '86 FOR AN EXCESS OF POLITICAL ENTHUSIASM AND A CERTAIN DEFICIENCY IN INTELLECTUAL ATTAINMENTS. I DID NOT RETURN TO BE GRADUATED. THERE DID NOT SEEM TO BE EITHER REASON OR HOPE. I THINK THE LESS SAID ABOUT MY COLLEGE CAREER THE BETTER. PERHAPS THAT IS SO WITH THE REST OF MY CAREER. HOWEVER, EXERCISE YOUR OWN JUDGMENT, ONLY PLEASE PRINT THE FACTS, OR PERHAPS...
Science reporting was a relatively rare journalistic pursuit. Whatever attention scientific matters received in the press was permeated with either an excess of awe or an abundance of naivete, or both. Even so, TIME decided to take science seriously, and its very first issue carried seven stories on the subject. One concerned the proposal of an inventor named...