Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today CNN has a staff of more than 1,700, a global reach in excess of 75 million homes and a budget that keeps growing while the three broadcast networks cut back. Its headquarters are spread over several floors in a hotel- and-shopping complex in downtown Atlanta, formerly called the Omni and now dubbed CNN Center. The network has established its credibility, and it makes money: a profit of $134 million in 1990 and most likely more...
Some parents even purchase bicycles and Nintendo sets for Kwanzaa gifts; they rationalize the excess by buying from black-owned businesses. That, they say, is in the spirit of ujamaa, or cooperative economics. "This is the U.S., and if anything becomes successful, it almost automatically becomes commercial," says Copage. "Doing otherwise is like trying to surf without getting...
...grades 7 through 12 drink alcoholic beverages every week. Of those kids, 454,000 admit to weekly "binges" -- meaning they consume five or more drinks in a single brief sitting. Another study, by the University of Michigan, reports that almost one-third of high school seniors drink to excess at least once every two weeks. And according to a survey prepared for USA Today, 46% of student leaders say drinking is their high school's biggest problem, followed by apathy. "Serious drinking is a fact of life," says Phuong Nguyen, senior-class president at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School...
...poorest of the poor, where welfare eligibility arises. Second, the black poor are more likely than their white counterparts to live in cities, and hence to have a chance of making their way to the welfare office. Correct for those two differences, and you won't find an excess of African Americans fitting the stereotype of the sluttish welfare queen who breeds for profit...
This is ranting excess of the finest quality, and a case could be made that its author is the most gifted and prodigious humorist the U.S. has heard from since the old steamboat pilot ran aground. Prophetic stuff too. One doubter, + foreseeing the twilight of radio, broods that "they will invent something. It'll have the same effect as bourbon but it won't give you headaches or upset the stomach, so it'll be used even by the kiddos. It'll earn gazillions. And boys, they are not going to deal us in on that hand." What Keillor...