As Mr. Stockman should recall, President Reagan engaged in his own Keynesian excesses focused on the defense industry and ran up a huge debt in the process.
The songs sidestep the era's psychedelic excesses, focusing on the spine and soul of, say, Laura Nyro's "Wedding Bell Blues" and Dusty Springfield's classic "Son of a Preacher Man".
The details are complex, but follow them through to the end and you will see all of the problems of our system — political corruption, excess leverage, focus on short-term profit at the expense of survival — in one sordid affair.
"There's been an excess of focus on trying to get the right number of calories," Dr. McCarthy said.
His drawings diverge from the theme of excess to focus on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and its effects.
By managing your time as you would a small business, you can cut the excess and focus on what you really find most rewarding.
Jason von Meding, who studies disaster risk reduction at the University of Newcastle in Australia, says the government should explain why it rejected the Gadgil-committee report, which emphasized the need to curb development excesses and focus on conservation.
For more than a decade, American policy toward Tunisia has quietly ignored these excesses, focusing instead on the country's role as moderate ally in a turbulent region, a supporter of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and a model of relative prosperity for the Arab world.
Study after study and report upon report looks at more particular reasons for obesity and excess pounds, focusing on the edges and the aggravators of the problem instead of the flabby core.
Firstly, to undertake a critical review of existing definitions of excess travel focused on travel to work and hence to present a new definition which takes account of important developments in the public transport literature.
