Word: excesses
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Each track is a mélange of allusions and Wainwright’s personal and musical associations, combined to the point of excess until the listener feels submerged and almost drowned at moments. It can be hard to keep up sometimes. The lyrics by themselves are playful and light, yet littered with beautiful phrases and miniature revelations packaged in couplets. The opening of the second song reads: “I don’t know what it is / But you got to do it / I don’t know where...
...from the sweatpants and Crimson Crazies combo accesorized with a bottle of Smart Water. Out and about on the weekend, she’s wearing Abercrombie jeans in a cross-hatch wash, a black tank in slinky jersey and a little too much eye shadow, but regardless of the excess, those mean Beirut skills ensure she’ll be the life of any party...
...cannot help wonder at the thinking that argues to forfeit this huge revenue stream at a time when the nation is accepting an annual federal deficit in excess of $400 billion,” said Gates, who co-chairs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “The word ‘reckless’ comes to mind...
...This intervention?which was far in excess of the government's previous record annual expenditure of the equivalent of $66.4 billion?irked the U.S. and other Western industrial countries, where domestic manufacturers claim the tactic is an unfair trade policy. At the G-7 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers in Dubai two weeks ago, representatives led by U.S. Treasury Secretary John Snow issued a statement calling for "more flexibility in exchange rates," a move widely acknowledged as a criticism of currency policies in Japan and China...
...Indeed, despite frequent claims that structural reform is finally taking hold, Japan Inc. overall is not getting measurably more efficient. Although many companies have successfully cleared out excess debt, labor and capacity by cutting costs and streamlining operations, Katz argues that such improvements have so far been confined mainly to large companies. That's good news for lots of punters, but it is less significant for the economy as a whole. Katz notes that according to the Finance Ministry, Japan's 5,600 largest companies employ only 11% of the workforce and account for just 17% of GDP. And although...