NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street could keep rallying after notching its best week this year if Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke gives a reassuring assessment of the recovery and retail earnings show improvement.
Microsoft phone system hits reset on digital music
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The value of new construction starts slipped 1% in January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $419.3 billion, according to McGraw-Hill Construction, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies.
The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another, more than needed ; remainder; surplus as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other. Excess Inventory being that which is extra and not needed.
Being of a measure beyond enough, necessity, or duty; Excess exceeds what is usual or proper; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, ... Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. - Shakespeare
That kills me with excess of grief, this with excess of joy. - Walsh
An undue indulgence of the appetite like in gluttony; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation. More than needed.
Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess. Ephesians v. 18
Thy desire ... leads to no excess That reaches blame. - Milton
Spherical excess, in geometry the amount by which the sum of the three angles of a spherical triangle exceeds two right angles. The spherical excess is proportional to the area of the triangle.
A condition on an insurance policy by which the insured pays for the first part of any claim, in exchange for a lower premium.
Excess def. 
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