Word: excessive
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...million in 1997 and will easily exceed $900 million this year. Forrester Research, which tracks the online industry, expects that the number of accounts will more than quadruple by 2002, to more than 18 million. There are now upwards of 8.4 million active Internet users with portfolios in excess of $100,000, according to @plan, a Connecticut market research firm. "There are huge numbers of people on the Internet with sizable portfolios who aren't yet shopping for stocks and mutual funds online," says Mark Wright, @plan's CEO. As a result, notes Eugene Ludwig, former U.S. Comptroller...
...front of my children that all I wanted to do was "suck d___." I asked him not to use this language in front of my children... I said that his drinking had caused him to lose his job, wife and children. [Shah denies that he drinks to excess, or that drinking has ever cost him a job; former colleagues confirm his account.] He came down the stairs...and punched me in the face, he hit me with the car seat which he had picked up, threw me to the ground and I fell in order to protect and cover...
...Ellen does nothing in moderation. Everything is done to excess with her," Shah says...
...them anymore--unless he's planning to build a really, really big presidential library. He should be going after the producers of drivel, the teachers unions who protect the status quo, the fat cats to whom he apologized for raising taxes. Instead, how about criticizing them for their wretched excess--$1,000 bottles of wine, $250 cigars, Versailles-like mansions? Or reversing the appalling gap between their income and those who haven't got on the Clinton gravy train...
Nothing succeeds like excess" goes the famous Hollywood maxim, and nowhere is that more true than offscreen. We're talking about those ego-driven dictators of Panavision dreams who consume truckloads of drugs, frolic with call girls and go millions over budget as carelessly as if they were writing a bad check for groceries. Take Francis Coppola, who drank from Lalique crystal and cavorted with bimbos on the set of Apocalypse Now while his crew suffered from hookworm and rabies. How about Martin Scorsese, who was so wired at Cannes in 1978 that he sent a plane to Paris just...