Word: excessive
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...Such shockingly careful behavior is almost certainly a backlash to the shockingly egregious instances of expense-account excess that have come to light in recent years. In one case, brokers hoping to win more business from Fidelity Investments treated one of the firm?s traders to a lavish bachelor party, including private jet travel, female companionship and, yes, dwarf tossing, not necessarily in that order. The hosts expensed it. Last year, the CEO of Savvis Communications resigned in the wake of a $241,000 charge to his corporate card during an evening with business associates at a strip club...
...bankers and traders can entertain. Yet these rules were purposely vague, encouraging something Wall Street is understandably fond of: self-enforcement. Under the new rules the Street essentially sets its own limits. Regulators, like Justice Potter Stewart's famous ruling on pornography 46 years ago, say they will know excess when they see it. Another round, boys...
...Your cover line on "What Separates Life's Go-Getters from its Also-Rans" was insulting to most of humanity. Look at any troubled company or organization, and you'll find an excess of bumbling go-getters, who only make it harder for the selfless also-rans who really keep things going. Just remember the people who have quietly encouraged and aided your growth (teachers, volunteers, relatives), and ask yourself which camp each resides in. Ernie Henninger Harrodsburg, Kentucky...
...million she picked up as sole heiress to her mother's fortune. Even so, Athina, the last direct descendant of the legendary Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, had reason to expect more last weekend. She grew up believing she would inherit the remainder of her family's fortune - in excess of $1 billion - and assume a hereditary role at the helm of the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, an organization managing corporate and charitable operations. But that birthday gift did not materialize. As a family insider predicted two weeks before her birthday, "Athina's 21st birthday will come and go without...
Development can also be hampered by an excess of investor enthusiasm in world financial markets, the president warned...