Word: excessive
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...problem, as epitomized by the tech boom, is that the Street never knows when to turn off the money spigot. A good idea once is a good idea a million times, to the point of excess. In the hunt for ever more profit, everyone gets carried away, ethics and laws are at times breached, and then, ultimately, the collapse comes...
...more and more new residents building houses on the shrinking borderlands between edge suburbs and untouched wilderness. More than 8.6 million Western homes have been built within 30 miles (50 km) of national forest since 1982; in California, where the population has more than tripled since 1950, in excess of 50% of new housing has been built in a severe-fire zone. That's risky for obvious reasons: If more people choose to live in areas threatened by fire, more people will be in harm's way when disaster finally strikes. But those houses, especially if owners fail to prioritize...
...president of the Blackstone Group, and Agnes Gund, former president of the Museum of Modern Art. And HBSCNY had no intention of holding on to the extra cash. “We are not a foundation,” Marcus explained. “The agreement was that any excess funds would be given to educational non-profits in New York City.” The club, which claims 13,000 HBS alumni as members, will make the donations official at a ceremony to be held at their 5th Avenue location at 4:30 p.m. today. The five non-profit...
...made his talk of self-effacing harmony seem obsolete. After a brief honeymoon of unanimous opinions in obscure cases, it is the same four Justices on the right and the same four on the left in one high-profile case after another, with Kennedy determining the law. Bombast, rhetorical excess and dueling opinions are thick as Pompeian...
...once rancorous Washington Circuit Court of Appeals as an example of an ideologically divided panel that has managed to find its way back to civility. "It's not clear yet if John Roberts understands that that achievement requires the judges to give something up," Wittes says. "Namely, excess rhetoric." Even some Justices express concern on occasion. The newest of the nine, Alito, has confided that he finds the rhetoric dismaying, and he recently noted during a question-and-answer session at Pepperdine School of Law that it can be almost impossible to slip in a question among all the speechifying...