Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, it can take as much as a week after the election to figure out exactly who's won. Cambridge's arcane system of proportional representation makes it possible for citizens to vote for as many as nine candidates, and excess votes are transferred from one candidate to another...
...Evangelicals back in their pews -- from which they would supply votes but not leadership -- the religious right's image as sinister, rigid and exclusionary was excellent material. Ditto for liberal opponents like People for the American Way, which monitors the religious right and scores points from its every excess. After the election, Reed scurried to recoup. "This stealth thing is bad for the movement," he announced. "It isn't the future. It's the past, if anything." Reed struggled to practice diversity, conservative style. When he opened a Washington lobbying office, he appointed a Jew, Marshall Wittmann, to head...
...country. In Glenwood Landing, New York, the EPA found 235 parties responsible, including not just major corporations but also a film-developing shop and a pizza parlor. One of those parties was Pat Genzale of Franklin Square, New York, a bona fide victim of Superfund's liti-gious excess. Genzale, who was going broke trying to comply with EPA orders to remove waste legally dumped 37 years ago on his family company's land, contracted to have some of the waste hauled to Ohio. The contractor dumped it instead at Glenwood Landing; so Genzale is being sued...
...ordinary human activity -- not just the Corps of Engineers -- that has robbed the Mississippi basin of its most precious resource: the wetlands and riparian forests that once absorbed excess rainwater like so many giant sponges. In fact, the displacement of this natural flood-control system by an artificial one may, over time, increase the number of record-busting floods...
...have a different president, Boesky has since cleaned bathrooms for 11 cents an hour, and Milken is down to his last $125 million. Those in power now disparage of paying big fees. If the ghost of the generation of excess lives on in baseball, it must be exorcised from the investment world, above all in an academic setting. As an institution that prides itself on critical thinking, Harvard must learn to examine itself and its corporate ethics...