Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cambridge Councillor Jonathan S. Myers, a frequent park stroller, says that the excess mud is "a drain-off issue." But Myers' solution is a little less complex than Young's: "Wear old clothes," he says...
...legacy to us is the high standard of inquiry and fairness, of skepticism and decency, that he imposed on himself and on the magazine; he always reminded us when the scoundrel had been acquitted. He was inner-directed and mistrusted trends. He never failed to check writers' inclination to excess. As a colleague says, "In a conflict between poetry and truth, Ron came down on the side of truth." He hated what was false and had X-ray vision...
...swell and the bad guys are not entirely deserving of their fate. For Eastwood it was something new, garbed in familiar cowboy clothing. Only after the final gunfight does the director allow his alter ego, the actor, to indulge in a brief valedictory to the satiric excess that characterized the Eastwood of an earlier era. "Any son of a bitch who takes a shot at me," gunman William Munny bellows into the night, "I'm not only going to kill him, I'm going to kill his wife, all his friends and burn his damn house down." As Eastwood likes...
Travel suits the peripatetic nature of the narrative. The world is an agora through which Moores and McPhee amble and learn. Whenever their exchanges seem about to burst with an excess of ophiolites, abyssoliths and subduction zones, McPhee relieves the pressure with anecdotes and historical nuggets. Included is a tectonic dish of special interest to Californians. During the past 2,000 years, part of the San Andreas Fault near Los Angeles has been wrenched by 12 major earthquakes. On average they occurred 145 years apart. The most recent Big One hit in 1857. McPhee makes no predictions but figures...
...term freeze on prices charged by doctors, hospitals, laboratories and nursing homes, and a cap on insurance- premium increases. In addition, Hillary Rodham Clinton, head of the health- care task force, told members of Congress that a tax might be imposed on benefits provided by employers to workers in excess of some basic package -- a proposal she had earlier disavowed. Finally, the Administration accepts the idea of rationing health services. It approved an Oregon plan to extend Medicaid to those not now getting it, recouping the cost by no longer reimbursing treatment for conditions that clear up by themselves...