Word: excessives
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...several years, researchers have known that the brain cells of Alzheimer's victims are clogged with an overabundance of beta amyloid. The sticky protein forms plaques that can kill the cells, gradually producing memory loss. But why do some people have an excess of the amyloid, and why does it accumulate in the brain...
...process has been completely effective. Advocates of this method make two assumptions about the woman: that she will have the emotional fortitude to go through an experience on her own, and that she will get to a hospital if she becomes one of the rare cases where there is excess bleeding or other complications. Lynne Randall, director of an Atlanta abortion clinic that has volunteered to be an RU 486 test site, sees no long-term obstacle: "The supervision would be a doctor's saying, 'I'm on call. If you get bad cramps, call me and I'll meet...
...BOTTOM LINE: A high-kicking biography of the martial-arts star proves that nothing succeeds like excess...
...managed to double analysts' predictions with net earnings of $572 million. Even General Motors turned a financial corner with quarterly profits of $513 million. Still, all three companies tempered their reports with downbeat expressions of caution. Ford's chairman, Harold A. Poling, complained of "weak economies, intense competition and excess industry capacity...
More than 98% of voters in Eritrea elected to secede from Ethiopia, bringing to a peaceful close one of Africa's longest and bloodiest wars of independence. But economic development will not come so easily. Eritrea's government needs in excess of $2 billion to begin rebuilding the nation's shattered infrastructure, and any future prosperity may hinge on amicable ties with Eritrea's former rulers in Addis Ababa. Since the breakaway province now controls Ethiopia's only access to the Red Sea, it is a relationship neither side can afford to neglect...