Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thank you, Harold. But I'd add that the old Bill Murray was pretty revelatory too. Who said, "The work of any pioneering artist first looks like excess, then reveals itself as precision"? Well, I guess I did, just now. But / as Nick the Lounge Singer on SNL and in a lot of his movies, Bill taught us that there was a magical, very American bliss to be achieved by failing in public and not realizing it. He was the soul of the showman in every CPA who's just had that third Scotch on the rocks...
Goodman described the fine which the owners offered to pay as "in excess of $10,000," and "equivalent to the revenue that they will lose from closing for a month...
Lipman, who filed the civil action motion, wrote that "the plaintiff will, in all likelihood, recover in excess of $25,000." Lipman said yesterday it would be up to a jury to decide how much of that amount each defendant would...
...only are financial inducements aimed at the wrong target; they're also unsuccessful. Studies and figures demonstrate that reimbursement offers have had little effect. Tuition or loan forgiveness can save students and their families in excess of $100,000. That's a tremendous amount, to be sure, but it's less than the average annual salary for U.S. doctors. And it's far less than the average salary for most specialists...
...think it's great," Harvard law student Tal Gurian said. "The excess of the eighties are sick, and [Clinton's] industrial policy will save...