Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...project will ultimately be completed in theyear 2000, and will cost the city in excess of $20million.Marion B. Gammill...
Despite his astonishing displays of excess, there seems to be a kind of brutal calculus behind the madness. "If I behave like the good-natured intellectual I really am," Zhirinovsky told TIME editors last week, "I won't get votes. It's war out there, and I'm out to win." Yet the loud applause that greets his vision is no longer confined to the fringes of the Russian nationalist movement. After a stunning success last December when his Liberal Democratic Party won 25% of the vote in the party preference poll, dealing a major blow to Yeltsin...
Maybe not, but cracks in the foundations of these economies could yet cause shudders in the nascent recovery. In Japan deflation continues to haunt the economy as banks struggle to cope with swollen portfolios of bad debts. Many Japanese firms still suffer as well from excess capacity and bloated payrolls. In Europe high interest rates, fueled by the bond market's fear of an outbreak of inflation, could still put the brakes on the recovery...
...number of college-age women who drink to get drunk has jumped more than 300 percent since 1979, according to a new study of drinking on America's campuses. But women aren't the only ones imbibing to excess: one out of every two college students has binged, drinking five or more alcoholic beverages in one sitting. Many of those drunks aren't peaceful: alcohol is involved in 90 percent of all campus rapes, 95 percent of violent crimes and 41 percent of academic problems. TIME Washington correspondent Ann Blackman notes that alcohol consumption -- especially hard liquor -- is down nationally...
Moffit's group proposed expanding health coverage through an "individual mandate" like the one that requires drivers to carry liability insurance. It would require coverage only for medical bills in excess of $3,000 a year, which would make such insurance more affordable. The Heritage plan has attracted few sponsors in Congress, but Senator John Chafee, the Rhode Island Republican, calls for an individual mandate in his health-reform plan, which has drawn support as a vehicle for bipartisan compromise...