Word: bloat
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...long voyage of the Pelicano is a stark symbol of the environmental exploitation of poor countries by the rich. It also represents the single most irresponsible and reckless way to get rid of the growing mountains of refuse, much of it poisonous, that now bloat the world's landfills. Indiscriminate dumping of any kind -- in a New Jersey swamp, on a Haitian beach or in the Indian Ocean -- simply shifts potentially hazardous waste from one place to another. The practice only underscores the enormity of what has become an urgent global dilemma: how to reduce the gargantuan waste by-products...
Control Data got into trouble by developing "corpocracy," or corporate bloat, at a relatively early age. William Norris, a former Sperry Rand general manager who started the company in 1957, had managed by the early 1960s -- with a staff of only a few thousand employees -- to take the industry lead in building high-speed computers for scientists and engineers. But as the company grew and prospered during the 1970s, the founder's interests began to wander toward wide-ranging and public-spirited ventures that diverted money and managerial attention. The company built factories in low-income regions like Appalachia, tried...
...that insurers are pushing rates higher than necessary. Last month Ralph Nader and Robert Hunter, president of the National Insurance Consumer Organization, asked the Justice Department to investigate whether the insurance industry is illegally boycotting some businesses. "What we are witnessing," said Hunter, "is a manufactured crisis intended to bloat insurer profits and reduce victims' rights...
...American political life for a generation. But for the war, Johnson might have served two terms. He might have made his Great Society work, or at least work better than it ultimately did, with program after program collapsing under the burden of unfocused - goals, unbridled spending and unbelievable bureaucratic bloat. He might have been succeeded by, say, Robert Kennedy. All of that is, of course, imponderable. As it was, the war shook the Democratic Party for years. Among a number of other divisions, in fact, the party is still split along the lines drawn years ago between hawk and dove...
Congressional pensions are based on a formula that takes into account the length of service and the average of the recipient's three highest-salaried years; generous cost of living increases bloat benefits further...