Word: excessions
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...That Fuss For Nothing A month after the government controversially sanctioned planting Britain 's first genetically modified crops, German firm Bayer CropScience pulled out of the venture, citing excess red tape...
...Tapped Out Coca-Cola's ambitions for the British bottled-water market were dampened when it had to recall 500,000 bottles of its recently launched Dasani that were found to contain excess levels of bromate, a potential carcinogen...
Today's characteristic form of scandal is financial abuse and excess. So where is the Luttwak of today who will cut through all the demagoguery and the whining, the outraged criticism and the mealymouthed apologies, and say, Look, you want a vigorous entrepreneurial economy? A bit of excess is a necessary by-product. "We need more" financial abuse--it is a sign that capitalism is working...
...were raped, saying they were safely accommodated in their own hostels "cordoned off with a razor-wire fence" and guarded by watchmen. In Washington last Wednesday, Zimbabwe's human-rights record dominated a congressional human-rights hearing held by the Committee on International Relations. "The Mugabe regime takes what excess foreign exchange it can obtain and it uses [it] to open new camps," said Congressman Ed Royce, chairman of the subcommittee on Africa, who says he will now ask the Zimbabwean government for access to the camps. Two weeks ago, not long after the State Department released its annual human...
...when people visit the office in excess, Ehrenreich says, they must draw the line...