Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blink they were extinct. Our creamery went silent. So did the big diesel electric generators that pumped through the cold winter nights. Maybe it all is good. But the memories are so intimate and gratifying, of things done well and done by people we knew and never done in excess...
...nothing new. As long ago as 1969, Harvard physician Kilmer McCully--now with the Veterans Administration Hospital in Providence, R.I.--was studying the unusual case of an eight-year-old boy who had died of a stroke. McCully found that the boy's bloodstream was fairly awash in excess homocysteine and that his arteries had the sclerotic look of an elderly...
...pretty 14-year-old Army brat (and he the world's most famous private) has taken a company with a market value of $3 million and virtually no income and built an enterprise with yearly revenues of an estimated $75 million and a likely value in excess of $250 million, with a public offering of stock expected soon for its new restaurant properties. The accomplishment is all the more remarkable given that EPE does not have title to most of the recordings that made Elvis Elvis in the first place...
...studies demonstrate that radiation-associated excess risk from cancer or other diseases persists for at least 50 years, and strongly suggest that this elevated risk continues throughout life. Our data do not show that atom-bomb survivors are living longer than comparable, unexposed groups. DALE PRESTON, Chief, Statistics Kiyohiko Mabuchi, Chief, Epidemiology Radiation Effects Research Foundation Hiroshima...
Today, someone graduating from a private institution such as Smith College can graduate with debt in excess...