Word: excessive
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...main reason is efficiency: it is becoming obvious that domestic mergers offer big commercial banks a fast way to reduce expenses before they take the more uncharted jump outside national borders. "There's a preference to start with domestic mergers first because they offer the quickest way to reduce excess capacity by cutting jobs," says Hendrikus Blommestein, acting head of the financial markets division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. Jean-Pierre Danthine, a professor at the University of Lausanne, suggests an additional motive for the at-home trend in corporate behavior: domestic mergers have...
...greeting to the industry recently: "Get lost soon." In a single day's trading in February, American Greetings, the nation's largest publicly owned greeting-card company, with $2 billion in annual revenues, lost $800 million in market value, tumbling 33%, to $23.25, after warning investors that dumping excess inventory would hurt near-term profits. Gibson Greetings' stock is limping along below $9, down from above $29 last year. (Industry leader Hallmark, with $3.9 billion in sales, is private.) Says American Greetings CEO Morry Weiss: "When you disappoint people, confidence will take a while to come back...
...visionaries have spearheaded this radically salacious dramatic opus. The kiddos scripted and composed the music all by themselves. Imagine that! Mom and dad will show up for "a slew of dirty secrets, six self-indulgent students and one seedy night at a Chinese restaurant-rank with sweet-and-sour excess." Get a scorpion bowl's worth of intrigue, debauchery and political incorrectness at the Agassiz, April...
...overpack The First Lady's jet was delayed an hour due to excess cargo weight. And she brought only three press secretaries...
Nevertheless, the Leakeys will forever be synonymous with paleoanthropology and even today show all signs of being alive, well and contributing productively to the field. Richard's wife Meave, a trained zoologist, and their eldest daughter Louise are currently leading teams to northern Kenya, where hominids in excess of 4 million years old are being found. The stage is set for the first family of anthropology to continue well into the next century...