Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need for closets full of forms, the CAD/CAM-equipped factory lets engineers "warehouse" inventory parts in the computer, and manufacture them on the spot as required. With such an application, Deere & Co., the Illinois-based farm-equipment manufacturer, expects to save $29 million simply by eliminating the warehousing of excess spare parts...
...McGovern wanted them to be. And, if anything, the political game is rougher now, played by fiercer men, according to fewer rules. In a sense, the New Right's defeat of McGovern confirmed his obsolescence, confirmed that the political voices of the eighties will not speak with an indiscreet excess of conviction. Perhaps George McGovern, the former college professor, never belonged in politics in the first place. Perhaps that Capitol Hill office was meant for James Abdnor all along...
...merely paper-television, with identical subject matter and similar format. In the parody, the Poonies walk on comfortable and familiar ground; they have found a subject wedded to their talents. The glee, combined with the compulsive energy, with which they pursued their task appears throughout the parody in pleasing excess. It may be hard to imagine the Poonies as houseguests, but with the People parody, the Harvard Lampoon has found a home...
Sadat enjoyed the comforts and perquisites of his rank, but hardly to excess. Apart from a weakness for fine English suits and imported Dunhill pipe tobacco, his tastes and habits were simple. He usually ate only one light meal each day. A devout Muslim, he never drank wine or liquor. He liked to spend quiet evenings at home watching private movie screenings, usually of American westerns...
...business of this intricately designed yet simply stated movie is to turn obsession into irony. This is always a useful enterprise. In life, it is the great antidote to insomnia; in movies, it is the alternative to melodrama and an excess of gunshots in the final reel...