Some are just insanely excessive, like the wedding, in Bruges, Belgium, in 1468, of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York.
The dishes on this list range from the excessive (like the Bacon Bomb from Paddy Long's in Chicago, a pork sausage meatloaf wrapped in a woven blanket of brown sugar bacon and slow cooked in a pig roaster) to the downright surprising (like the Melba pancakes from Shopsin's in New York City, featuring lime, raspberry, and peach preserves, with bacon and cream cheese).
There's a lot of research in the management science literature that says, gosh, the only way you avoid group think and excessive like-mindedness is to have some kind of conflict in a team or group.
To Dean's credit, he goes beyond familiar examples of excessive secrecy, like the closed meetings of Cheney's energy task force and the administration's lack of cooperation with investigations into the Sept. 11 attacks.
After concluding last spring that the economy was expanding at an unsustainable pace and fueling inflation, Chinese leaders initially chose mostly administrative methods to try to limit excessive growth, like the denial of zoning and environmental impact approvals for building projects.
After concluding last spring that the economy was expanding at an unsustainable pace and fueling inflation, Chinese leaders initially chose mostly administrative methods to try to limit excessive growth, like the denial of approvals for construction projects.
Time and again clients will come to me, initially wanting to eliminate some excessive craving, like the woman who told me she devoured a bag of potato chips every night before dinner.
Based on this we theorized that even in cases were the cancer cells do not produce excessive DcR3 (like the ovarian cancer cells lines tested here) they may be influenced by DcR3 produced by other cells in the tumor micro-environment.
Making it a crime to give a ride to an unauthorized immigrant may seem strange and excessive, like some reincarnation of the Fugitive Slave Act.
The book also demonstrates that there is something like an aesthetic of bad taste, ranging from the pretentious and awful to the honestly excessive, like Gypsy Rose Lee's house, where, in a way that somehow seems entirely appropriate, not a single surface is left bare or unadorned; even the bathroom commode is encased in ornamental tole-work.
"I don't like the term 'excessive exercise,' because it's not necessarily doing too much exercise," says Sommer, "but exercising for the wrong reasons -- not for health or to train for a race, but solely to control weight and shape or as a punishment for eating bad foods".
