Word: excessive
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Ross Perot's aura of cranky independence and his refusal to be bound by familiar candidate-craft made him attractive, at first, to voters weary of politicos from central casting. But those same qualities, carried to excess, barred the Texas billionaire from expanding his astonishingly strong start into a durable effort. When he fled the field last week, Perot explained his retreat the way he had justified his invasion in February -- just doing his public duty. Then, in the face of charges that he was deserting the volunteers he had mobilized, he offered to construct a third force that would...
...spells and enchantments, ordeals and rescues, its inner narrative an evocation of growing up and facing down the everyday demons of adult life. Unlike the bizarre Ken Russell film, the narrative reshaped for La Jolla by McAnuff and composer- lyricist Pete Townshend has an essential innocence, maybe even an excess of optimism. The title character, apparently deaf and blind from boyhood, is in fact rendered autistic by seeing his father shoot his mother's lover -- an infidelity made less sordid by the fact that the father, a World War II airman, had been reported dead. Over the years...
...event of a Bush victory. Last week Bush's legal advisers were studying ways to allow Baker to remain as Secretary of State and simply append himself to the White House staff as a kind of supercounselor who would oversee both the White House and the campaign. To avoid excess publicity, Bush may skip a big takeover announcement. "Baker will come over," said an adviser, "and that will...
Since the Industrial Revolution, gases like carbon dioxide and methane have been wafting into the atmosphere, where they let the sun's rays in to warm the earth but keep excess heat from escaping back into space. Acting like the glass walls of a greenhouse, these gases have forced the planet's temperature up 0.8 degreesC (1.5 degreesF) over the past century or so. If the trend continues, temperatures could increase up to 5 degreesC (9 degreesF) within 50 years, raising the sea level, distorting weather patterns and causing widespread environmental disruption...
...They will eventually fund [scholarship in excess of need] by reducing the...aid that they provide to other needy students..."Gray said. "I think that will reduce the socioeconomic diversity of the undergraduate level, there will be fewer youngsters from low income situations. I think in the end the MIT will suffer. the class will be of lower quality...