Word: excessive
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Other changes aimed at loosening what many critics had charged was an excess of bureaucratic regulation. States were given an extra year, until Jan. 1, 1998, to set up the health-care alliances the plan contemplates. If a state opts instead for a single-payer system under which the government becomes sole insurer and pays all doctor and hospital bills, the revised bill simplifies the administrative procedures that state must go through. To ease fears that the Administration will restrict patients' choice of doctors, the final bill provides that even health maintenance organizations must allow members to consult doctors...
...nouveau-riche excess of the place has not escaped Bowe, who jokingly calls the house "the Riddick Bowe Presidential Estate." But he adds, "I get a kick out of providing my family with the necessities and giving them things they don't need." Requests from his siblings have become so frequent that none now have his home phone number. Still, Bowe bought a $350,000 home for his mother, and supports his sister Brenda's four children and two other nephews whose mother is struggling with a drug problem. About a month after winning the title, he also bought marble...
Once a candidate surpasses the quota of votes needed to be elected--a figure derived by mathematical formula and based on the numbers of candidates and votes cast--that candidate's excess votes are transferred to the second choices listed on randomly selected ballots. The votes of candidates at the bottom of the heap are transferred in much the same...
...candidates who "meet quota" in this first round are ranked first on the ballots of at least 10 percent of voters. The ballots in excess of quota are redistributed to the second choice candidates...
...Adriana Suarez). In this pas de deux, the lifts and leaps break boundaries in choreography noticeably lacking in the rest of the performance. The following pas de deux between the Prince and Princess, while technically excellent and performed with subtlety and grace, lacks the strength and sense of energetic excess captured by the Blue Birds...