Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actually is being done by either the Administration or its challengers. For Bush, as for Clinton and most members of Congress, the prospect of lost jobs, closed bases and canceled contracts makes it politically risky to propose the really substantial changes that are needed -- especially with unemployment running in excess...
...white-tailed deer in the continental U.S. have rebounded to a population of 25 million -- about as many as there were before hunting, land-clearing Europeans colonized America -- and that is just too many to coexist comfortably with modern society. Still, simply killing off the excess raises questions of safety and ethics, especially in the suburbs...
Perhaps the owners have more mercenary motives. Like going where the money is. As one of half a dozen owners with a fortune in excess of a billion dollars, Jack Kent Cooke probably has enough money now. Cooke owns the N.F.L. champion Washington Redskins, but like many a Joe Lunchpail, he wants to move to the suburbs. Move the Redskins, that is, to a rail yard in Alexandria, Virginia. No matter that Washington doesn't want the 'Skins to leave and Alexandria doesn't want them to come. In a secret deal whose conspiratorial bravado would have set Boss Tweed...
...never heard techno pop so self-indulgent. The electronic gadgets beep and boom in delicious excess--"S.O.S." sounds like R2D2 having an orgasm. The album is so incredibly boppy and catchy it's downright scary; these melodies will stick in your head obsessively, providing a manic soundtrack to your thoughts for weeks to come...
...course, gays have no monopoly on imprudent defiance of common sense. Americans by the millions continue to overeat, smoke, drink to excess, take "recreational" drugs, drive too fast and do other things they take pleasure in even though they know these practices could kill them...