On Monday, Business Secretary Vince Cable announced a series of measures designed to rein in excessive executive pay.
Apparently this is a sharper irony than debating the excesses of capitalism over crabcakes and martinis at the Harvard Club (both served in excessive quantities, and were delicious).
The government says it is keeping an open mind on whether the goal of reining in excessive pay can best be achieved through new guidelines or legislative changes.
The warnings follow a report earlier this week by the Medical Council on Alcohol, which suggests there has been a dramatic increase in excessive drinking among professional women.
In China, for instance, some foreign investors made aggressive bets on the country's luxury housing market in the past few years, only to get burned after the government moved to rein in excessive speculation.
Reductions in excessive work hours increase product quality.
This resulted in excessive money issuance.
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In particular, if no countervailing actions are taken, what would be perceived as an implicit expansion of the safety net could exacerbate the problem of "too big to fail, " possibly resulting in excessive risk-taking and yet greater systemic risk in the future.
"The examiners consider that the very large number of investigative bodies has resulted in excessive fragmentation of efforts, lack of specialised expertise, lack of transparency both for the public and for investigative authorities, and problems in achieving coherent action, " the report said.
The median age of brides and grooms is now at record highs and the older the couple, more likely they are to be footing their own bills, and the less likely they are too have the time to indulge in excessive planning.
The regulators failed to regulate the economy that is why you had a crisis and when you had crisis then they had to keep the financial institutions alive in order to prevent the total big round and this creates what is called a moral hazard which allows the financial institutions to indulge in excessive lending and excessive profits and excessive stimulation.
The global market has become increasingly competitive and we do not have the luxury of arbitrarily raising the costs of doing business in the U.S. If the president is serious about economic growth, then his administration should address the structural impediments head on, reining in excessive taxes and regulations while fostering an educated workforce poised to harness the benefits of innovation and technology.
"Our primary concerns are that injured parties receive care and compensation as quickly as possible, and that all motorists benefit from a reduction in the excessive costs that have built up in claims over the past few years, " said Dominic Clayden, claims director at Aviva.
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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For private-equity funds, SEC enforcement officials are zooming in on excessive valuations of funds' holdings.
The National Weather Service advises residents to take extra precautions in the excessive heat.
Though that does happen sometimes, that is only when management fails to do its job in resisting excessive union demands.
The emergence of a weak target exchange rate implies a more internationalized yen, which is another variable in arresting excessive appreciation of the dollar.
"It is dangerous in giving excessive market power and before these banks are returned to private ownership they should be split up, " the Lib Dem MP said.
Brooks has it in for excessive individualism, but neither Harry nor Erica display an inclination to lose the boundaries of any of their multiple selves in ecstatic experience.
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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.
The FTC says Countrywide charged homeowners who were in default excessive fees for services like lawn mowing, property inspections and other services that were meant to protect the value of the property in default.
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So although the Enterprise Act gives him discretionary powers to adjudicate on whether a media takeover restricts plurality or choice for consumers in an excessive way, he restricted his discretion by doing nothing that was not approved by Ofcom.
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.
The contractor is responsible for about 40% of the increase, resulting mainly from the need to change the original design in response to excessive weight and other problems encountered in development.
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America is in the vanguard, but excessive faith in central bankers is unlikely to stop there.
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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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.
But the leverage backstop is a simple way of reining in banks' excessive ambitions.
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