Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PAUL TSONGAS (+2) All he lacks is charisma, which Clinton has in excess. Drawbacks: He doesn't need the job, and who could ever forget "Pander Bear...
...OPEN ROAD. Oscar-winning screenwriter Steve Tesich (Breaking Away) prefers the stage, where he can blend metaphysical ambition and gothic excess. In this tale of strugglers on the loose, there are echoes of Kerouac, Beckett and Reaganomics interwoven with Tesich's moral fervor. At Chicago's Goodman Theater...
...massive retrenchment from the U.S. market by Japanese investors is also unfounded. Japan has been earning huge trade surpluses lately by buying less abroad and keeping exports high. In February it sold $10.23 billion more goods overseas than it bought, the biggest monthly surplus in history. Much of that excess capital should flow right back into the U.S. through purchases of stocks and bonds and by other forms of investments. Last week, for example, Sony began hiring for a TV-assembly plant it is opening this summer outside Pittsburgh that will eventually employ 1,000 people...
...system that was starting torequire excess service," he said...
...William Aramony was a victim of his own success -- and excess. President of United Way of America for the past 21 years, the energetic Aramony was widely credited with boosting annual receipts from $787 million in 1970 to more than $3 billion in 1990. He had sought and nurtured a lucrative agreement from the National Football League to donate valuable advertising airtime, featuring pro celebrities, during nationally telecast N.F.L. games. But last week, facing embarrassing criticism of his life-style, Aramony abruptly resigned...