Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most other European countries, the NATO decision to station cruise missiles on the country's soil would be hotly debated by voters. The miserable state of the national economy would topple governments elsewhere. (Public debt amounts to about $4,000 for every Italian citizen; inflation is running in excess of 16% annually.) Issues exist, but they are not presented as matters to be commented on by the electorate...
...commercial links to Taiwan, but they were not as harsh as some U.S. diplomats had expected. Pan Am has never used the Burma air route, and the loss of Canton for emergency landings is not as dangerous as it sounds, since planes flying into the area always carry enough excess fuel to divert to another city if Hong Kong airport is closed. Significantly, Peking stopped short of terminating the 1980 Sino-U.S. aviation pact and unilaterally banning Pan Am from the mainland, a move that would have virtually forced retaliation against CAAC flights...
...improved Conrail bears little relation to the moribund operation that the Government took over. The old line was burdened by excess tracks, rickety roadbeds, union featherbedding and weak management. Shippers used to exchange stories about lost cargoes and goods damaged by frequent derailments...
Because stress alters the body's chemical balance, it seems to influence the development of many diseases, including psychiatric disorders. Depression has been associated with low levels of two neurotransmitters, serotonin and norepinephrine. Similarly, schizophrenia seems to be related to an excess of dopamine...
...sheer vastness and excess, Bob Hope's three-year-old, 25,000-sq.-ft. home in Palm Springs, Calif., is not the gesture of an old man content to dwell quietly among yesterday's memories. Climbing the cascade of black marble stairs under the house's wide-vaulting arch, a visitor might be on some gigantic Academy Awards set, a gleaming desert mirage. Actually, the place is a kind of hotel. Even when the owner is on the road, friends check in for a few days. On this afternoon, however, the sound of Crosby-esque bubabooing from...