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Word: excessive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Excess votes are then assigned to secondpreferences. The candidate with the least votes isthen eliminated and ballots for that candidate arereassigned by second preference. This eliminationis continued until 11 students are selected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coop Official Predicts Low Election Turnout | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

...years, or about $2.79 billion a year, opponents believe the price tag could be as high as $15 billion a year. A study prepared at the University of Southern California calculated the resultant loss in jobs -- mainly from companies forced by added antismog costs to relocate -- to be in excess of 30,000. "This area used to be called the promised land," complained Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich, one of two members of the district management board who voted against passage. "Now it's going to be a wasteland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Drastic Plan to Banish Smog | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...less affluent cultures, America has the luxury of fretting over the little things. It is the particular indulgence of baby boomers who believe that restraint of one's appetites, daily workouts and a lot of oat bran can delay aging indefinitely. To health-and-fitness puritans, sagging flesh and excess weight represent an inexcusable lack of vigilance. Accustomed to success in translating their private anxieties into public activity -- protesting a war, toppling a President, taking over universities -- they turned to perfecting their immediate environment in the 1970s, pressing the Government for help and suing anyone who did not share their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do You Dare To Eat A Peach? | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

...national banks into the Bank of Crete, then the / smallest private bank in the country. There, Koskotas says, he arranged for the government deposits to draw an exceptionally low rate of interest, only 2% or 3%. Bank savings accounts in Greece routinely draw 15% interest. The excess interest earned on the government deposits was siphoned off and went straight to the politicians, he says. In addition, protected and encouraged by Papandreou, Koskotas secretly plowed Bank of Crete funds into his magazines and newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandals The Looting of Greece | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...many ways this new freedom has been a marvelous experiment, without parallel in history. But part has gone to an excess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: Master Of His Universe: TOM WOLFE | 2/13/1989 | See Source »

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