Word: overboard
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...live 150 years - which perversely encourages fishermen to take as much as they can, while supplies last. Some 20 years after New Zealand started its orange roughy industry in the 1970s (the name orange roughy was dreamed up to better market the slimehead fish, which was initially tossed overboard as trash fish), the ocean's stock of roughy was 75% depleted. Over the years, this "tragedy of the global commons" has resulted in the serial depletion of one species after another...
...Boutique hotels often over-compensate for their lack of size - and rebel against the cookie-cutter monotony of chain hotels - by going overboard on design. But Naumi, Singapore's latest boutique hotel, thankfully emphasizes the fundamentals - and very decent they are too. Located in the city center, just across from the Raffles Hotel, Naumi provides 40 good-sized rooms kitted out with quality amenities (think Aesop toiletries and organic teas), as well as stylish technology (wi-fi, portable IP-enabled phones and an iPod dock...
...element in the music video-like setting. Likewise, Mandy Moore is apt at playing the marginal role of the rich girl who is spoiled by her politician father, while Seann William Scott slips seamlessly into the role of the confused pawn. The special effects don’t go overboard, and the film has an excellent soundtrack, but it never develops any real moments of emotion. Granted, Kelly may be attempting to parody the surrealist tradition and even the frightening idea of an apocalypse, but the film lacks real depth, even in its short-lived romantic subplots...
...Still, the union may be going a little overboard. It recently accused New York Times columnist Murray Chass of being an "enabler of collusion" by writing a piece in which he surveyed about a dozen GMs of their possible interest in A-Rod and found very few, if any, takers...
Friends insist Hermann has become more glamorous in her more public role as CEO, converting from washed-out working mom to sophisticated executive?without going overboard. "Valerie, plain pumps, is now Valerie, stilettos," says Camilla Morton, a writer who works closely with Dior designer John Galliano...