Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rich in the '90s is not in style." Families are learning hard lessons in economics, and in discipline. One by one, items drop from the budget of a middle-class dream: cable TV, designer coffee, a winter vacation, credit cards. In the boom years of the decade, when no excess was too wretched, household debt grew about 50% faster than disposable income. "I really try to get us on a savings plan," says Sarah Frazier, who lives with her husband Richard in Idyllwild, Calif. "We want to start a family someday, and it's getting harder and harder with food...
...troubled leisure-wear company has unveiled a series of holiday commercials that compare the supposedly meager gift-giving traditions of other cultures with the loaded-down Christmas excess in the U.S. The spots' self-satisfied tag line: "Aren't you glad you live in America...
...actual count -- well, actual approximate count -- the Australian rock band INXS has played 2,000 performances during the past 13 years. And what have its members got to show for it? Folks still have trouble with the name. "In excess" would be phonetically correct, but it lacks the cool mystery of those four uppercase letters, which make the lads loom large, like something mythic: six electrified Druids with some new rhythmic spells to weave...
Vintners blame neo-prohibitionism for federal legislation that requires them to clutter bottles with precautionary print. In 1988, for example, labels were required to note the presence of sulfites, which can cause certain allergic reactions, but for relatively few imbibers and only if consumed at levels well in excess of what is found in table wines. Last year two new warnings were mandated: one about the risk of birth defects for pregnant women who drink and another about consumption impairing the ability to drive...
...hostages returned from Iraq two weeks ago. There have been only minor antiwar demonstrations. Fuel-price increases have failed to stimulate debate: long before the current crisis, Bonn imposed heavy gasoline taxes to encourage conservation; thus higher costs for crude only marginally affected German pump prices, which run in excess...