Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doesn't anyone have a kind word for Wall Street's gilded '80s? The new decade is only six weeks old, and already stores are piled high with books that portray the past ten years as a sink of avarice and excess. The melodramatic titles depict the American free-enterprise system as overrun by barbarians and liars, ambition and greed. And readers are lapping it all up. Just as they reveled in stories of the rich and famous during the past decade, today's inquiring minds are hungry for colorful tales about the pratfalls of the mighty...
Harvard's art museums are planning to establish a new program to bring special exhibitions to the University, paid for by a major gift expected to be in excess of $180,000, a spokesperson said yesterday...
...kind of military overinsurance that the public was willing to pay for a decade ago looks like wretched excess now. Baker and the presidential National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft would like to reduce the price tag on modernization, put a "Bush stamp" on START, and eliminate from both superpowers' arsenals weapons that are as dangerous as they are expensive. Just before the Malta summit last year they suggested scrapping the MX in - exchange for a similar monster missile on the Soviet side, but the Pentagon squelched the idea -- for the time being...
...Cohen, Robinson named Howard Clark Jr., who is known to favor a no-frills corporate style, as the chief financial officer of American Express. "Times have changed," says Lawrence Eckenfelder, who follows the securities industry for Prudential-Bache. "The name of the game now is to wring out the excess, cut costs, retrench...
...Alvin was narrowly elected by fluke," says Glenn S. Koocher '71, a prominent city Republican. "He was never allied with the progressives dispite his liberal voting record. He never paid his dues and carries excess political baggage such as a series of no-show or no-heavy-lifting jobs," says Koocher...