We allowed our economy to become bloated with debt both in the private sector and public sectors.
The telecom industry is like a big fat treasure galleon, bloated with gold, that's being attacked and boarded by pirates.
Knowingly, he had denied me the opportunity to write back with ready excuses, to enclose a cheque bloated with guilty zeros.
As these knots of plotting schemers at the city centers were becoming bloated with sudden wealth, the producing classes of the country .
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Once seen as the leanest manufacturer in the business, Chrysler is now derided as bloated, with products that look dowdy in today's increasingly competitive marketplace.
Too much money and too many developers are chasing the MMO dragon, and this has created a bloated market with too much competition and too few winners.
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Negroponte defied congressional expectations by building an empire a bloated office with over 1, 000 employees, many of them torn from their line responsibilities elsewhere in the community and the often-important work they were doing there.
The surfeit of sports data makes it easy to distinguish between bargain-priced players and underachievers with bloated salaries.
But we're not talking about, as you said in the piece, children with bloated bellies and that sort of thing.
He has also proved himself a good manager, despite inheriting a bloated city government with rigid civil-service laws and 48 different unions.
With bloated tuition costs and questionable academic standards, it's time we challenge the conventional wisdom that college is the only path to advanced education and economic success.
And while major publishers struggle with bloated release schedules and rampant costs in a shifting media landscape, NYRB Classics succeeds as a lean model of consistency, quality and reader engagement.
This is a game that Microsoft, with its bloated bureaucracy does not want to play.
Las Vegas comes in second, with its bloated inventory of homes left over from the housing bubble.
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Like many legacy carriers, PAL struggles to cope with a bloated payroll, high fuel costs and fierce competition from budget airlines.
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The bad news is that Eircom was stuck with the bloated and inefficient work force that is typical of a government-owned company.
Hunger in America is a little bit different than what some of us are used to seeing in maybe some Third World countries, of a child with a bloated stomach.
Public employment, which had become bloated (Portugal, with a smaller population than Ohio, has 308 municipal governments) will shrink under a new policy of hiring only one new person for every two who retire.
Upon occupying Fiorina's old office, Hurd soon realized he had taken charge of a demoralized staff contending with organizational chaos and bloated costs.
But abdominal distension - being permanently bloated - was more frequently associated with a diagnosis and was a symptom present even in the earlier stages of disease.
Today, the U.S. imports roughly half its daily oil needs, which is down from a high of almost 70% just a few years ago, and few consider this to be a national security crisis, at least not of the sort that would justify the creation of yet another bloated federal bureaucracy to ostensibly deal with the situation.
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The lords of the debt-laden Cablevision have stuck it to New York sports fans with high cable fees, bloated player payrolls, high ticket prices and crappy teams for years.
The lords of the debt-laden Cablevision (nyse: CVC - news - people ) have stuck it to New York sports fans with high cable fees, bloated player payrolls, high ticket prices and crappy teams for years.
At the risk of seeming Google-centric, I have to point out that it's even possible to manage basic documents and spreadsheets online -- once proprietary to bloated Microsoft Office products -- for free with Google Docs.
NATO, they must spend more money on defence and transform their bloated armies into smaller fighting forces, easily inter-operable with America's.
After Congress removed the tax break in 1986, and the bloated property market went bust in 1989, legions of investors wound up with partnership units so troubled they could scarcely be given away.
Hughes, whose club gave up in their high-profile attempt to sign Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o - now likely to join Inter Milan in a swap deal with Zlatan Ibrahimovic - has a glut of forwards in his bloated, 57-strong squad.
With more than 115, 000 employees, mostly in Europe, its payroll is bloated.
Both cases, along with hundreds, if not thousands, of other federal prosecutions currently lodged in the bloated federal criminal justice system, raise the question of whether the federal Constitution, which supposedly guarantees defendants a fair trial, prohibits the feds from bringing unnecessarily complex charges and then financially disabling defendants from engaging in a fair fight.
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But those policies weren't perfect (or cheap): the crime-fighting of the 1980s and '90s, with an emphasis on policing and incarceration, contributed to current problems such as unfunded pensions, bloated government unions and overcrowded prisons.
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