Word: excessive
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...Japanese; dioxin pollution has only recently been addressed. In the 1960s, Tokyo's air had the sort of reputation that Beijing's does today. Japan's household carbon dioxide emissions have increased an estimated 40% since 1990. A visit to any department store is to bear witness to an excess of wrapping and packaging...
Having brutally slashed costs, staff and service over the past decade, the big airlines still lose money. High fuel prices are a culprit, triggering American's $328 million first-quarter loss, but so is excess capacity, which keeps airlines from raising prices enough to earn a profit. The skimping has turned flying into an ordeal for most passengers. And new "open skies" agreements that have deregulated international travel give better-capitalized foreign airlines more access to travelers to and from the U.S. This accretion of failure has caused some in the industry to lose faith. "There really is no such...
...hints at some sort of dramatic theme underlying all the layers of glassy synthesizers, and he anchors most of the tracks in beds of tonal allusion to the transatlantic dance pop of the mid-80s. In fact, most of the album’s tracks reek so heavily of excess that, after a first listen, it’s difficult to discern whether “Youth” proposes homage or parody. Gonzales clearly understands the nostalgia associated with such eagerly retrospective arrangements, but in trying to plug listeners into that same nostalgia, he also recalls the vapidity...
...keep the guts?”“Elections & Erections” is similarly irreverent, lampooning everyone from Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Nigerian president Robert Mugabe. “I want to offend everyone in the audience at least once,” says Uys. The comedic excess of his show is disarming, resisting categorization and thereby dispelling the viewer’s potential biases against outspoken activism. Uys mocks public figures across the ideological spectrum, forcing the audience to abandon political allegiances and approach the show from a common standpoint of startled acceptance.Uys has deftly adapted...
...peace armies and occupation can bring and has no been invoked in columns and essays to argue against the American invasion of Iraq from day one. If elected as America’s next president, Obama risks creating a different kind of desolation in Iraq, caused not by an excess of American power, but an insufficiency. Obama is selling himself as the President to settle the peace, not continue the war. Yet some of the senator’s recent comments suggest he has far less of an interest in peace than in popularity. In an Associated Press interview from...