Word: excessive
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...Collins, a college librarian with a lifelong love of cooking shows, gives a decade-by-decade breakdown of the evolution of TV cooking as a dead-accurate social barometer. From providing helpful hints for homemakers in the 1950's, catering to the lavish lifestyles and culinary excess of the 80's and satisfying the celeb-hungry, reality-crazed audience of the new millennium, Collins examines how far cooking programs have gone to adapt their content, style and character to both suit and define various moments in the 20th century. Her thorough research is spiced with anecdotes and personal testimonials from...
Besser: There is very little surge capacity right now in our health care system. You have to plan for how you would handle a surge, but right now there is very little excess capacity. It points to the importance of health reform and increasing access to care, and making sure that people have a trusted medical source they can turn to for information. One of the reasons we work so hard on community control measures is not that you can stop the flu from spreading eventually, but if you slow it down, it can reduce the burden on your health...
...Lieberman only exacerbates an already existing problem, and he cannot be easily dismissed as a marginal case of excess or as an abnormality of the Israeli political system. Among Yisrael Beiteinu’s elected members of the Knesset are a former ambassador to the U.S. and a former senior commander in the police force. Theirs is not simply a right-wing political insurgency, but an outlook deeply rooted in Israeli politics...
...testimony to our strength of spirit that we embrace a new frugality forced upon us by the economy [April 27]. But will this renunciation of excess continue beyond the current crisis? Look how quickly sales of big trucks and SUVs rebounded once gas prices dropped. Smaller, greener vehicles were so much more attractive when our pocketbooks were under attack. Similarly, McMansions have gobbled up farmland--and now we're stuck with them for decades to come. Let's hope that when the world economy recovers, the monster vehicles will remain on scrap heaps, builders won't build monstrosities and people...
...into the pockets of the average Chinese and therefore it does not raise consumption," says Huang. "A year or two from now, suppose that the U.S. does not resume its previous pace of consumption -which is very likely- then the huge state-sector investments will create another round of excess capacity...