Word: excessives
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...Harvard and Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players' production of Iolanthe has a few of its own charms. The sunny scenery and Technicolor costumes, the small size of the cast, and the quaint Agassiz Theater create a user-friendly atmosphere. The direction of the operetta avoids visual excess and distraction, which can sometimes by a problem when gossamer fairy wings, pomp and circumstance are involved. Overall, the bright simplicity of the arrangements, bordering on a cheerful campiness, complements the more complex plot, focusing attention on the characters instead of on their surroundings...
...ownership to the public. The public does not mean one person or even ten people. The public means as many different people as there are copies. After all, if the public referred to only ten people (for example), then why would the paper's publishers produce copies far in excess of the public's supposed population? So confiscating papers in effect takes them wrongfully from the rightful possessor, i.e. the public...
...year-old from Ohio is now famous--or infamous, as the case may be--for his acts of vandalism. While egg-tossing and destruction of property might be common ways for restless American teenagers to rid themselves of excess energy, it's no laughing matter in Singapore. Michael Fay has been sentenced by the Singapore courts to four months in prison, a $2,300 fine, and six lashes with a half-inch-thick rattan cane...
...last thing researchers want their finding to do is provoke a backlash against fruit juices. Certainly, older children can still indulge their habit. All that is required is common sense. "Do everything in moderation," Lifshitz advises. "Even the most healthful, prudent act, done in excess, can be harmful...
...Like nuclear power, derivatives perform a useful function. But they also contain a great deal of risk that must be carefully controlled. "Are derivatives here to stay?" asks Friedman of Goldman Sachs. "Certainly they are. Like many other instruments, they can be used to excess. But they can also be used for extremely beneficial purposes." It will be up to watchdogs in government and on Wall Street to ensure that the beneficial side of derivatives prevails, and that they do not follow pyramid schemes and savings and loan deals into the lexicon of American financial bubbles that burst...