Word: excessive
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...sharing of power... I put that hand on the Bible, and I meant it when I said I'm going to uphold the Constitution. I also mean it when I'm going to protect the American people.? But he still has the burn marks, he suggests, from an earlier excess of scruple. ?At one point in time the government got accused of not connecting the dots.? He recalled the debates over intelligence failures after 9/11. ?And all of a sudden, we start connecting the dots through the Patriot Act and the NSA decision, and we're being criticized...
Some of the world's most creative and productive individuals simply refuse to subject their brains to excess data streams. When a New York Times reporter interviewed several recent winners of MacArthur "genius" grants, a striking number said they kept cell phones and iPods off or away when in transit so that they could use the downtime for thinking. Personal-finance guru Suze Orman, despite an exhausting array of media and entrepreneurial commitments, utterly refuses to check messages, answer her phone or allow anything else to come between her and whatever she's working on. "I do one thing...
...energy importer, and Italy saw their flows reduced by more than a third and, with U.S. backing, pressed Moscow to reach a stabilizing agreement with Ukraine. At a time when thre is reduced oil production in Iraq, and Norway is already pumping oil at full power, there was no excess capacity from which Europe could benefit. Clearly, the pressure was on. Not surprisingly, the involved parties swiftly reached an agreement—featuring gradual price increases and the involvement of third-party dealers—to save Muscovite face. Several lessons and comparisons can be drawn following this New Year?...
...urgent. And the growing role that Eastern Europe plays as both a market and a production site for West European companies is fueling a frenzy of acquisitions there. Mergers involving East European firms soared in value by more than 250% this year, with almost 1,700 deals totaling in excess of $100 billion, according to data firm Dealogic. Stephen Barrett, international chairman of the corporate finance practice of consultants KPMG, says the privatization of many firms in the region is the cause of this sharp increase, as well as a surge in dealmaking by Russian energy firms such as Gazprom...
...Saraband reunites the main couple, Johan (Erland Josephson) and Marianne (Liv Ullmann), for an icy tri-generational trauma that involves Johan?s widowed son Henrik (B?rje Ahlstedt) and Henrik?s teenage daughter Karin (Julia Dufvenius). The movie asks: How dependent is Henrik on the daughter he loves, perhaps to excess? How dependent is Johan on the son he hates? And how dependent are all of them on their memory of the beloved woman who was Henrik?s wife? Always forcing himself to peel emotions down to the skin, and beneath them, Bergman has created a naked emotional biography...