Word: excessives
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...last day in the CIA, agent Nathan Muir (Robert Redford) recounts the story of Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt), whom he recruited and mentored. Bishop is about to be executed for a rogue raid on a Chinese prison, and Muir wants to rescue him. The excess of talk, some of it nicely smart-alecky, is relieved by much standard action-movie fieldwork: explosions, car chases, muttering. Though the film ranges the world and the decades in search of coherence and consequence, it finds none...
...Inequality in grading practices strikes me as a more serious problem than grade inflation per se,” Buell said. “Surely problems of fairness ought to loom larger than problems having to do with possible excess of generosity...
...University insider said increases to aid overall could exceed $50 million, and that even with some non-endowment sources, such a goal would require in excess of $1 billion dollars in newendowment...
...want you to know it.) Accelerating the marginal rate cuts approved earlier this year would provide an incentive to work and invest. And the corporate sector, which has dropped sharply, would respond favorably to a fiscal stimulus, especially given that there are no signs of significant excess capacity. Krugman should know these arguments, but his spook tactics are aimed at readers who don?...
...director has so much to say and show that he can't keep his images still. You could get drunk, or ill, on the high dose of whimsy in Amelie. That's fine--too many European movies suffer from emotional constipation and camera anomie. Jeunet travels the road of excess, telling dozens of peripheral tales, cueing American tunes from the '40s to play in a '90s Paris cafe, working in whatever style suits the moment, letting a key in Amelie's pocket radiate to signal intrigue, or literally dissolving her into a puddle of water when Nino finally shows...