Word: excessively
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This spring the rapper MA$E gave up singing about the glories of excess to devote himself to the glory of God. Now the 20-year-old has decided to add homework to the Lord's work and enrolled as a student at Clark Atlanta University. A protege of Sean Combs (a.k.a. Puff Daddy), Ma$e sold 3 million copies of his 1997 album Harlem World and was one of the biggest stars in rap before retiring from the business. Now he's just an oddly named coed. A spokesperson for the university said Ma$e, born Mason Betha, "fits...
...through a blind trust, so the candidate could not find out who gave it. Just as politicians don't know who voted for them, they would not know who contributed to their campaign--and thus whom they "owe." It's a radical idea, but in this season of excess, it just might catch...
...site can buy and sell entire lots of cattle via digital video feeds and still images. They can also get chemicals, grain and feed commodities online. On average, says Zaitz, Farms.com has more than 40,000 unique visitors a month. During the past year, the site has held in excess of $2 million worth of auctions of livestock and commodities. Zaitz, who has invested more than $1 million of his own money in his venture, expects revenues to increase tenfold this year...
...their blue-collar minions has ballooned over the last 20 years ? from a 42-to-1 ratio in 1980 to a 410-to-1 ratio last year ? and it keeps getting wider, according to a new study released Monday by two pro-labor think tanks. "A Decade of Executive Excess" reports that the average income of a corporate CEO increased fivefold since 1990 ? and last year alone the figure rose 36 percent, compared with a 2.7 percent increase in the average blue-collar wage. If you?re slaving away for the median employee?s annual income of $29,267, then...
Rather than spend millions on food research, why not just say anything in excess is bad and nothing in moderation is? The money saved could help achieve a cure for AIDS. GINA LAMY Paris...