Word: excessive
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Plenty hard, it seems, since somewhere in the course of our fin de siècle excess, we corrupted the culture of contrition as well. Public apologies now play like vaudeville: the extravagant remorse of disgraced televangelists, the snarled "I'm sorry" of celebrities who exude regret at being caught rather than being wrong, the artful admissions of politicians who want credit for their confessions without any actual cost. We've learned to peel them apart with tweezers, find the insincerity and self-interest: If I caused any offense (you thin-skinned morons), I regret it. And so apologies...
...another front, data from the states shows that four now have unemployment rates above 10% and some have recorded joblessness well in excess of 9%. (What Sells in a Recession: Canned Goods and Condoms...
...those problems. Entrepreneurs like Sleaford, even in hard-hit Florida, are setting up shop with completely clean balance sheets. They've got millions of dollars in fresh capital to write loans - and to pursue borrowers cast aside by banks focused on mopping up the mess from the years of excess. "New banks see people having a tough time getting loans, plus their funding costs are cheap since rates are low and they pay next to nothing for deposits," says Richard Sylla, an economist at New York University's Stern School of Business. "There's a profit opportunity there...
...some ways, Asia's growth model came to resemble a vast Ponzi scheme--one precariously perched on expectations that debt-soaked Americans would buy more TVs, computers and cars forever. Those expectations have been dashed, leaving the tigers with excess manufacturing capacity and a burgeoning army of unemployed workers. At Taiwan's Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park, home to many of the island's flagship tech firms, most workers are taking unpaid leave at least one day a week. Ryan Wu, chief operating officer of the job-search website 1111 Job Bank, says conditions at Hsinchu have never been...
...recent years, Harvard has enacted stringent measures to prevent underage drinking and the sort of dangerous excess that unfortunately has characterized collegiate antics of our generation. But, in banishing wine seminars and mandating BAT teams at House formals, the administration has only encouraged that any actual drinking be furtive and irresponsible. Today, conditioned by the Puritanism of university administrators and society’s moralists to see drinking as an evil—although permissible under certain circumstances—college students expectedly will treat it as such. Intoxication promises an easy high, a cover for actions that otherwise would...