Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early years seem, well, unseemly now. Before the Food and Drugs Act of 1906, the catalog listed a number of dubious medicinal aids, including laudanum, a notoriously addictive, opium-based headache remedy and sedative. Pistols and rifles were aggressively marketed for years. The big book luxuriated in excess. Who had ever thought of buying a car by mail? The 1910 catalog offered an automobile called a motor buggy -- manufactured by Sears -- for $395. Never has the tent of U.S. commerce seemed more gloriously, wastefully overstocked than it did when portrayed on the pages of the Sears catalog...
...Square contains a plane of wretched excess, conspicuous consumerism and degeneracy. I freely admit that I fantasize about riding at the head of a phalanx of Sherman tanks, Li Peng at my side, and squashing the whole fetid dump...
Beys was also one of the organizers of the De La Soul concert last spring, which lost in excess...
...large buildup of fat-soluble vitamins, which are poorly excreted by the kidneys, can produce toxic effects. According to Willett, vitamin D can cause seizuers and death if taken in extreme excess, and vitamin A and cause liver problems...
...make many of the campaign promises that now lie bent and broken on the floor. Some of the latest reversals were unavoidable: Clinton's campaign mathematics were untenable long before the Bush Administration revised its projections of future deficits. Budget Director Richard Darman's estimate of deficits in excess of $300 billion through 1997 simply hastened the need for Clinton to curtail his plans and start spinning down expectations. In early January, aides began to back away from his improbable plans to provide tax relief to middle-class Americans, spend $20 billion on infrastructure this year, oppose a gasoline...