Word: excessive
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...that are supposedly linked to an increased risk of heart attack. Among the suspected culprits: feeling hostile or stressed; drinking too much coffee; living with a smoker; being exposed to car exhaust; having high levels of the kidney protein renin; being bald; and having a body shape that puts excess weight around the belly rather than the hips and thighs...
...excitement was a little too much for some individuals who took their alcohol consumption to excess...
Under the Hare proportional representation system, voters rank the candidates. Candidates are elected if they meet a quota of votes, and their excess votes are transferred to the next-ranked candidate. Low candidates' votes are also redistributed in later rounds...
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan has developed a magnificent obsession with the CIA's odd role in the cold war as a cheerleader for the success of the Soviet experiment. "Every President since Dwight Eisenhower has been told that the Soviet Union ((had)) growth rates vastly in excess of ours," he says. The CIA regularly predicted that the Soviets were catching up. In the late 1970s, it claimed, absurdly in retrospect, that the Soviet economy was two-thirds the size of America's. While exaggerating the importance of communist regimes in such places as Angola and Nicaragua, the agency also completely...
There's a little more to it than that. The council is potentially a political gold mine for Quayle, who often refers businesspeople with complaints about government meddling to his eager staff of deregulators. The council spearheaded Quayle's attack on lawyers and excess litigation last August, and is preparing to move beyond reviewing new regulations to tackling rules already in place. While Quayle's detractors dismiss the Vice President as silly and feckless, his shrewd handling of the council's affairs is just another sign that he is taking full advantage of his office...