Was this really excessive?

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But if the Fed was ever really serious about unwinding excessive leverage, the time had clearly arrived.

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What's more, the packages have not really dealt with the problem of excessive debt, but merely transferred it from the private to the public sector.

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So Blankenship has tried to be a good consumer and figure out what care and medicine she really needs and what seems like excessive ordering by her doctors.

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Savvy investors should look at fund expenses, historical portfolio turnover and sector weightings to before deciding if their manager has a chance at beating the market after taxes or is really just a closet indexer charging excessive management fees.

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"Women don't really accept that the amount of alcohol they're drinking is excessive, " the spokeswoman said.

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