Providing excessive and non-sustainable recovery assistance to southern Mozambique will reawaken a culture of aid-dependency in a region that was finally beginning to break free from it.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Under IRS regulations, the IRS can slap fines onto non-profits and board members who approve excessive compensation for its executive director.

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It also says car parking charges must be "proportional" and local authorities should not be charging excessive prices to pay for non-related services.

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And, with labour markets still extremely tight, excessive wage pressure, particularly in the non-traded service sector, remains a risk.

ECONOMIST: The Asian effect

The new legal burdens of non-executives, particularly on audit committees, may mean that the atmosphere in American boardrooms swings too far, from excessive adulation of the chief executive to its opposite, curbing the risk-taking that is essential to corporate success.

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