Word: excessive
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...clue may exist. Spectrographic studies of Sirius A, the German researchers note, show that it has a metallic content higher than normal for stars of its type. The excess metal, they say, could have been showered on Sirius A when its red giant companion collapsed and exploded. The fact that no other evidence of an explosion exists, and that most astronomers say it should, does not disturb Schlosser. "Because of Sirius," he says, "we may have to change our theories about the life and metamorphosis of stars." --By Leon Jaroff. Reported by Andrea Dorfman/New York and William McWhirter/Bonn
Conventional wisdom has it that late Romantics were given to excess. But aside from a few interpolated (and exciting) high notes, there is nothing egregious about the performances. Indeed, as contemporaries of many of the operas--De Reszke was born in 1850, the year of Lohengrin's premiere--the old singers project a freshness and an unforced vitality that are often lacking today...
Responding to Dyken, Neurosurgeon James T. Robertson of the University of Tennessee agreed that the excess surgery is "indefensible." Other surgeons are not so quick to condemn current practice. Since thorough studies have not been conducted, says Dr. Russel Patterson, president of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, "nobody knows whether the operation is overdone...
...lack of a formal labor contract at USX may be one reason why corporate buccaneers, sensing the potential for wage cuts and an eventual increase in corporate earnings, soon began to sniff around. Another attraction for raiders is a USX pension fund with an estimated $2.5 billion in excess assets. Last month the company's stock began moving into some well-known hands. Among the buyers: Robert Holmes à Court, an Australian investor; T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oilman-raider; Irwin Jacobs, the Minneapolis entrepreneur and speculator. Pickens reportedly cashed in his chips two weeks ago for a big profit...
...latest megatakeover offers broke a relative lull in the merger spree--a lull, that is, only by recent standards. Last year more than 3,380 mergers and buyouts worth $1 million or more were completed in the U.S., with a total value in excess of $144 billion. In the first half of 1986 there were 1,639 similar transactions, worth more than $81 billion. But then the pace slowed a bit. In the past three months only 714 deals took place, involving more than $21 billion. Now, however, the merger game definitely seems to be heating up again. Allied Stores...