Word: excessives
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...trillion.) Although China's economic system will remain socialist, Hu urged greater reliance on foreign technology and market mechanisms. One capitalistic idea known as the "responsibility system" already allows peasants to increase their pay by doing extra work, and allows farmers to keep or sell production in excess of assigned quotas. Citing broad popular support for the scheme, Hu called for its continuation...
...kindly and harmless Don Alejandro in a wise and compassionate Spanish film called The Nest. The strength of Eric Rohmer's equally excellent Le Beau Manage is that it shows how rationalism, which is supposed to immunize us against our more maddened desires, can, when indulged in to excess, also provide a breeding ground for love gone lunatic...
...Mass Hall hierarchy has a side effect of exaggerating Bok's inclination to avoid public confrontation. You have to get past a lot of offices before you get to the president's door. But for all of his determination to avoid excess public exposure. Bok has felt obligated to voice his opinion in recent years on important campus issues, such as race relations through a series of "Open Letters" to the Harvard community and through his periodic terms as titular head of national university lobbying groups...
...when you're not trying to kill them. Countries should act the same." For the moment, in this private place, Captain Outrageous, also known as the Mouth of the South, has become Peaceable Ted. Naturally, he takes his peace the way he fought his competition, in luxuriant excess. -By John Skow
...watch Parrel! stretching a Farrell part is a front-line experience; dancing just does not go further . . . And though she advanced to the very limit of the ballet's style, she never toppled into distortion. Farrell's choreography in Chaconne is already a study in rococo excess. To exceed excess and still not distort: quite a feat...