Word: excessive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which gives him financial heft he hasn't enjoyed since being backed by Michael Milken's junk bonds 20 years ago. And in the post-scandal age, yesterday's raider is today's shareholder activist. Icahn is playing that role to the hilt, lashing out at executive mismanagement and excess. In his view, corporate America is plagued by CEOs and boards compromised by cozy friendships and financial relationships--to the detriment of tough decision making and healthy share prices. Says Icahn: "Guys like me make management accountable...
...year begins to fade. In the person of Dwight Wilmerding, Kunkel spars with the “What should I do with my life?” question, indulging in semi-tongue-in-cheek references to German philosophers (in German), extended drug-induced hallucinations in South America, and an excess of anthropologists eager to offer social insight. “Indecision” is appropriate both for procrastination and for meditation on the general state of the world. Kunkel is also the founding editor of the new literary magazine...
...WHITMAN: Oh yeah. The U.S. is still growing in excess of 20% a year, which most companies would kill...
...spell trouble for the rest of the world. Particularly worrisome is the possibility of a double whammy for the world's fastest growing region, non-Japan Asia. This economic bloc is likely to be hit especially hard by the combined impacts of its inefficient energy consumption technology and its excess dependence on the American consumer...
...sustained?would cushion any shortfall in exports. Japan also benefits from the extraordinary progress it has made in improving its energy efficiency. Since 1973, Japan's oil intensity ratio?a measure of the amount of oil consumed as a proportion of economic output?has fallen by 83%, well in excess of the 50% decline experienced by the U.S. over the same period. Nevertheless, with China now Japan's largest export market, any weakening in Chinese economic growth traceable to the energy shock could do real damage to the nascent recovery in the Japanese economy...