Only three survived the scrapyard, and the boats are excessive in every way.
With droughts in Russia, excessive rains in Canada and Pakistan and adverse weather conditions affecting the harvest in the U.S., the U.S. government has cut its forecast for stocks of key crops such as corn, wheat and soybean.
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Among them are hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) - a hereditary condition in which there is excessive thickening in the heart muscle, myocarditis, which leads to inflammation of the heart muscle and coronary artery disease.
Even with the recent debt ceiling agreement, there is a good chance that disagreements between Democrats and Republicans will result in the opposite: excessive tightening in the short term, on the order of 2% of GDP in 2012, without a credible path to set public debt on a declining path within 5 years.
America is in the vanguard, but excessive faith in central bankers is unlikely to stop there.
The investor rights crowd is claiming victory after a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision this morning in a case that targets excessive fees in the mutual fund industry.
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Thanks to market reforms inspired in part by FORBES' exposs of excessive spreads in o-t-c markets in 1993 and 1996these young marketmakers are often able to dance around the big players.
Singapore's government imposed the tax in December 2011 on most foreigners to fight what it contends is excessive speculation in the property market.
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In many cases of past rebalancing, an undervalued exchange rate also led to excessive growth in money supply, making it harder to tame inflation.
It is not only excessive faith in technology that keeps many firms from making these low-tech investments.
Instead, they look more broadly at financial imbalances, particularly excessive growth in credit, which tends to signal problems ahead.
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The Wilpon team believes that Picard and his top deputy, David Sheehan, have shown excessive zeal in pursuing the case.
Goldman Sachs points out that this is still low by past standards, and that the rise probably reflects excessive lending in 1997-98.
Excessive use in humans can lead to metabolic dysfunction, including glucose intolerance.
Their lips crack from the dry, excessive heat in the subway tunnel.
Excessive rises in asset prices can be as dangerous as conventional inflation.
Critics have, for example, worried that it will lead to excessive increases in the money supply and ultimately to significant increases in inflation.
Messrs Borio and Lowe argue that central banks need to pay more attention to excessive growth in credit even when inflation is subdued.
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President Obama must not have been so fortunate because there were some nauseatingly trite passages of excessive sentiment in his Inaugural Address yesterday.
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They were a way to keep down inflation, but they also encouraged excessive borrowing in foreign currencies, creating strains that eventually broke the currency peg.
The real culprit is excessive rigidities in labour and product markets.
It would boost consumers' purchasing power and squeeze corporate profits, which have accounted for most of the increase in China's excessive domestic saving in recent years.
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This, he said, is one reason why they should keep a close eye on excessive growth in money or credit as well as on their inflation target.
Finally, knowing that the feds will bail out broken pensions will free sponsors and their portfolio managers to take excessive risk in the hopes of realizing higher returns.
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Large capital inflows have forced China's central bank to buy massive quantities of dollar reserves, which have spilled over into excessive growth in the money supply and credit.
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Commentators were alive to the dangers of excessive lending in the housing market, as an excellent New Yorker piece from John Cassidy (dating back to 2002), makes clear.
Advancing a small number of large, intricate programs also seems like a vivid example of the sort of dangerously excessive investment in the highly fragile that Taleb inveighs against.
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Excessive deficits for some imply excessive surpluses in others.
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