Word: excessive
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...more than $2 trillion to the national debt. Or you can look at the annual record and watch the deficits mount. In the Reagan-Bush years to date, the average annual deficit has been about $200 billion. In six of those 11 years, the actual amount was well in excess of $200 billion, and this year -- despite the much ballyhooed 1990 "budget agreement" between Congress and the White House -- it will explode to some $400 billion...
...only other Democratic candidate who lasted until the later primaries was former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., who did not accept individual contributions in excess of $100, well below the $250 minimum reporting amount...
Granted, my entry tutor is a doctor in residence at a Boston hospital--not the kind of job that provides excess leisure time. But regardless of profession, it seems to me Dunster tutors have a minimal commitment to the house. The effort expended by the four grill managers and the two house committee chairs to foster a sense of community in Dunster dwarfs anything I've seen on the part of the tutors...
Smoking Gun, Nonstop Excess...
...chases, lung cancer is probably the last thing Riggs (Mel Gibson) needs to worry about. The last thing the makers of LETHAL WEAPON 3 worried about was a complex story -- it's simply about stolen guns. The idea was to push the action to a level of excess where it turns parodistically comic, and this is done expertly. They've brought back Joe Pesci as a goofy cop buff, added Rene Russo as the love interest for Riggs -- a policewoman as crazily brave as he is -- and made a cheerfully amoral movie that cannily caters to and satirizes our passion...