Word: excessive
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Yahoo! has some assets it could sell to raise money. Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company, and Yahoo! Japan could be worth in excess of $5 billion. Yahoo! may decide that it can buy businesses that do more to help its position as a portal and search company. In a poor economy, even good assets will be cheap. Picking up strategic pieces will be easier with a vault full of cash...
...Dice bacon into ¼-inch pieces. Sauté in a pan until fat renders and pieces are crispy. Using a slotted spoon, move the pieces to a paper towel to drain off excess...
...strips of bacon, but not the excess grease. Cover with plastic wrap or foil and let the bacon infuse for 15 minutes...
...Caballero’s customers is that they seem to embrace their greater access to security in a particularly conspicuous and inconsiderate manner. No one would insist that all Mexican citizens bear the burden of the heightened crime rates equally or that wealthy and influential Mexicans pour all their excess funds into law enforcement; however, it is fair to expect that all Mexican citizens show some engagement and investment in the problems, even when they are not as directly affected as their fellow citizens. A crime is not merely the making of one criminal nor the tragedy of its victims...
...lone surviving gunman, according to police sources, spoke of how, in the remote jihadi training camps where he was indoctrinated, instructors would rail against the sinful city of Mumbai, decrying its excess and materialism and corrosive foreign influences. The worldly aspirations of Mumbai's diverse millions, they said, would be cowed by a spectacle of fire and brimstone. In the immediate aftermath, the attackers appeared to have gotten their way. All hope did seem abandoned amid the din of public grief and fury with a government many felt incapable of protecting its people...