Word: excessive
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...example, despite the high rate of automobile accidents, many of us choose to drive cars for their speed and convenience. On the other hand, one could argue that we don't permit absolute freedom. For instance, we require automobile drivers to obey speed limits. We control for excess danger to society while permitting the maximum freedom to the individual. It is this personal freedom with which we should place our primary concern. In the case of the menorah ban, the solution to the problem does not allow the original freedom to exist...
Kawachi says heavy coffee drinkers also tend to drink alcohol to excess and be more stressed. But he argues that these people would be more prone to suicide, not less, as the study indicates...
...last week between Gingrich and a group of House Republicans, Indiana Representative Mark Souder urged the Speaker to consider some measures that aren't found in the texts of party orthodoxy. Last year, for instance, Republicans in Congress backed an effort to make it easier for employers to withdraw excess money from employee pension funds. Souder argued for a gesture in the opposite direction: making pensions portable, so that a worker who has been laid off can take his pension with him. Gingrich gave back "his kind of tilted-chin, inquisitive look," says Souder. To anyone familiar with the Speaker...
...course, the students could use some help bringing down their use, particularly of electricity. Overheated (or underheated) rooms are not just uncomfortable, but wasteful. Although the superintendents insist windows should never be opened to dispense of excess heat, few students are willing to live in a sauna...
...Massachusetts has probably the most acute problem with excess beds in the country," he told the audience. "The 53 hospitals within Route 495 are run at about 15 percent of capacity. And hospitals, like oil refineries and airlines, have costs that are largely fixed...