Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under current procedures, surplus money in grants is rolled over to next term's grants. The new bylaws will mandate that the extra money goes to the campus life committee, and excess amounts from both operations and campus life will go to house committees...
Hillary is the first First Lady to have a major assignment by which she can -- and will -- be judged. As leader of a task force with a staff in excess of 500, she has traveled across nine states, held 50 congressional meetings and met with everyone from nurses to Native American spiritual healers. In a TIME/ CNN poll, her popularity nearly matched her husband's: 55% viewed her favorably, vs. 61% for the President. In the survey 91% describe her as intelligent and 63% as a good influence on her husband on matters of national policy...
...managed to double analysts' predictions with net earnings of $572 million. Even General Motors turned a financial corner with quarterly profits of $513 million. Still, all three companies tempered their reports with downbeat expressions of caution. Ford's chairman, Harold A. Poling, complained of "weak economies, intense competition and excess industry capacity...
...finding is significant because a common diagnosis of preeclampsia is an increase in blood pressure, or hypertension, and the presence of excess protein in the urine...
...somewhat intentional. Indiana often slips into seemingly unnecessary and indulgent stylisms, which act as nothing more than glittery accessories. Though possibly a reference to the Accessories Decade, these long-winded descriptions (usually of sex, sexy characters, or drugs) come too frequently to be considered merely clever allusions to 80s excess...