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Word: excessive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...atmospheric jet stream, longitudinal bands that could mark prevailing winds, and a dark blotch, perhaps similar to Jupiter's ancient high-pressure system known as the Great Red Spot. Neptune, Jupiter and Saturn all generate more heat than they receive from the sun, while Uranus does not; the excess heat may be the source of the turbulence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Next And Final Stop: Neptune | 8/7/1989 | See Source »

Like the century he almost spanned, Olivier the actor displayed turbulent energy, embraced awesome excess; his genius and his folly fed each other spectacularly. Said Albert Finney, who in 1959 understudied Olivier as Coriolanus: "He makes the climaxes higher, and he makes the depths of it lower, than you feel is possible in the text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laurence Olivier: 1907-1989: Absolutely An Actor. Born to It | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

Clamor is the usual condition in commodities pits. Last week, however, the soy-bean trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade erupted in pandemonium as the C.B.O.T. issued an emergency order, its first in a decade, that July futures contracts in excess of 1 million bu. be liquidated. In one day soybean-futures prices plunged 5%, to $6.86 per bu. Traders speculated that a single buyer was trying to corner the market or drive up prices. The suspected culprit: Ferruzzi Finanziaria, Italy's second largest privately held company and the third largest U.S. soybean processor since it bought Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Ferruzzi's Big Pot of Beans | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...California lottery, disputes the idea that lotteries are in effect a regressive tax on the poor. "The vast majority of players are middle-income and higher," he says. Yet he concedes that "there is some small percentage of people in the lower-income brackets who play ((to excess)), and by definition it is going to be a higher percentage of their income. But so are food, clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The States Like the Odds | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

Kemp said that in addition to direct losses, the program which he suspended yesterday has incurred loan defaults in excess of $250 million...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kemp Closes Third Housing Program | 7/7/1989 | See Source »

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