Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Suite" in Los Angeles, Bob Dole could conceivably be reconsidering his plans to move into the ordinary White House. Filled with every imaginable high-tech gadget and computer-controlled indulgence, this $2,000-a-night, 2,000-sq.-ft. hotel room, unveiled in June, is a temple to technological excess. Guests can draw a bath, close the drapes, dim the lights or crank up the stereo simply by speaking commands into the Cyber Suite's electronic "Butler in a Box." There's a fully wired wide-screen net TV for easy video conferencing and Web surfing, a new digital videodisc...
...first became interested in the world of mathematics. He pauses to reflect. Then he begins rocking back and forth in his chair like a bobbing pigeon. It is one of Kedlaya's tell-tale tics, as if the excess energy from his brain is powering the rest of his body...
...camps more than 20 years ago, the summer programming is now a vibrant group of 11 summer youth enrichment camps and programs created and directed by Harvard undergraduates, supported by Harvard University staff and resources, private donations, public programs and dedicated volunteers. Each year, the University provides well in excess of $300,000 in cash and in-kind support to PBHA and its summer community service programs. PBHA itself raises additional cash and in-kind resources, making the Summer Urban Program a true community partnership...
...Most of the games we had in excess of 30,000 people in attendance. It was a professional crowd and not a college crowd," Sullivan says. "[Harvard] was a fun place to go to watch a football game. The environment was nice and our fans enjoyed it. And the players enjoyed playing in front of a large crowd...
...most profitable. The flourishing technological barrio that has sprung up on the outskirts of Havana is not only supplying state-of-the-art health products to local hospitals and clinics but also selling more and more of its goods abroad, bringing in badly needed foreign currency in excess of $100 million a year...