Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to see why. What can one say when in the face of a city that so unabashedly proclaims its own preeminence? The fact is, even though it's been on good behavior for the past couple of years, New York still breeds a culture of dizzying excess perfectly suited to those who'd like to lose the scarlet H for a few days in a blur of neon lights, rattling subways and the raunchiest late-night public access TV around...
More than 60 years later, Harvard receives applications in excess of 16,000 each year and Lowell--now the third largest House on campus--houses 433 students. But despite the College's best efforts to maintain a stable undergraduate population of about 6,400, masters and residents say the Houses feel more crowded than ever...
Ballina has advanced far into Irish's soccertournament, forcing the Ballina soccer player toaccumulate in excess of 30,000 miles back andforth over the Atlantic...
...like this: with many real estate companies dependent on stock sales to fund projects, Wall Street becomes a long-sought governor over the industry. Just when there is a danger of overbuilding, REIT shares should fall and limit the industry's ability to raise money and build to damaging excess...
However, it would be ridiculous to denounce the study of all American history because it contains the story of the Ku Klux Klan. Black History Month is a claim to black cultural and historical equality, not a "silly therapeutic excess...