Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last thing researchers want their finding to do is provoke a backlash against fruit juices. Certainly, older children can still indulge their habit. All that is required is common sense. "Do everything in moderation," Lifshitz advises. "Even the most healthful, prudent act, done in excess, can be harmful...
...insured deposits from an S&L," meaning Madison, and some of the money was "used to pay off personal and campaign liabilities of the Governor." Conclusion: far from losing heavily, as the Clintons have always contended, "the family of the former Governor of Arkansas received value from Whitewater in excess of the resources invested." The documents Leach produced -- and has given to Fiske -- did not entirely support his claims, some of which are anything but novel, but they did raise new questions...
Getting tough has always been a "silver bullet," a quick fix for the crime and violence that society fears. Each year in Louisiana -- where excess is a way of life -- lawmakers have tried to outdo each other in legislating harsher mandatory penalties and in reducing avenues of release. The only thing to do with criminals, they say, is get tougher. They have. In the process, the ! purpose of prison began to change. The state boasts one of the highest lockup rates in the country, imposes the most severe penalties in the nation and vies to execute more criminals per capita...
...seems to be the rule that large research universities put a large amount of the teaching burden on graduate students. There are strong financial incentives for them to act this way--why should Harvard or Berkeley employ more faculty members at salaries in excess of $50,000 a year when they have a pool of graduate students who are willing to work for one-fifth of that amount? Many professors would rather do research than teach undergraduates especially since tenure decisions are based substantially more on research and publications that on time in the class room. The incentives become irresistible...
Given that the council will now retain a likely excess of funds this year, re-evaluation committee member Melissa Garza '94 said she is leaning toward opposing the $10 term bill increase. Garza sponsored the amendment to the by-laws passed last night...