Word: excessive
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Today, someone graduating from a private institution can easily graduate with debt in excess of $50,000. At some point, student loan debt begins to cross the line from opening opportunities to closing them...
ANNALS OF WRETCHED EXCESS...
...Stroke Belt, that is), these 153 counties in Georgia and the Carolinas have lower average incomes than the rest of the Belt. Scientists thought there must be a relationship between poverty and stroke mortality, but the study shows that only 5% to 16% of the Belt's excess strokes are due to socio-economic factors. So what's the explanation for the Belt and the Buckle? It's a medical mystery...
...Development-USA collateralized the 1994 loan, Barbour was advised of plans to seek overseas funds for the National Policy Forum. Last week the G.O.P. refunded $122,400 in Young Bros. campaign money, conceding its illegal Hong Kong origins. Democrats, smelling blood after months of battering for their fund-raising excess, are urging the return of the full $2.2 million. Most of that loan to the Forum was rerouted to the party to repay past debts and free up cash for the final weeks of the G.O.P.'s 1994 electoral coup. Two years later, Young Bros. was forced to pick...
...worry usually thought to be reserved for Rockefellers. Thanks to decades-long booms in stock and real estate values, more people are making the dismal discovery every year, and their shock is compounded when they learn how stiff the tax is. It starts at 37% on amounts in excess of $600,000 and escalates to 41% on amounts over $1 million and 55% on anything over $3 million...