Word: excessives
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...interview in Harper's magazine, budget director David Stockman declares that excess military spending has destroyed the nation's economy. "Ronald's face may have launched a thousand ships, but it's going to sink us all," he says, adding, "I bet I get no supper for saying this...
Your reporter has bunched a variety of different financial aid issues together but I think his main focus in on earnings ceilings. Students receiving financial aid have a calculated of job plus loan (self-help) and grant. Federal regulations prohibit students from receiving financial aid funds in excess of their need...
...addition, "the bare possibility that MATEP may sell excess energy to Boston Edison in the future does not affect the plant's non-profit status, "particularly when there is little likelihood that such sales will occur," he wrote...
...three boys have Georgia (Jodi Thelen) on their minds-a willfully free-spirited girl, naive and narcissistic, who thinks herself the avatar of Isadora Duncan and lopes through the '60s in search of a style. Four Friends proceeds in the same manner. As one character forlornly notes: "The excess of all this is a little staggering...
...great difficulty with all exaggerations is that while most of the audience may understand that excess and embellishment are in the air, and may automatically do a mental calculation discounting the rhetoric, the fact is that different auditors discount at different rates. It is often difficult to know just how much exaggeration is involved, and how much truth. If Iranians pumping their fists in the air describe the U. S. the "Great Satan," how much of that is homicidal hostility, how much is merely Persian literary style...