Walker's victory on Tuesday will galvanize those battling to curb the excesses of public employee unions.

CNN: A victory for curbs on public worker unions

To curb the excesses of executive pay, Vince Cable has passed the buck back to shareholders.

BBC: Will highly paid investors curb pay of highly paid bosses?

China has been making substantial efforts on its own to curb such excesses, and these might well benefit from co-operation with outsiders.

ECONOMIST: Some milestone

Mr Cowen feels the heat of public anger not only because of his government's belt-tightening but because he is widely perceived to have failed to curb the excesses of Ireland's housing-led economic boom during his tenure as finance minister, between 2004 and 2008.

ECONOMIST: Ireland's economy

Their crime: trying to curb the spending excesses of Sooner State politicians.

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What is urgently needed is a new balance within Europe between essential continuing efforts in most countries to curb public spending excesses, and securing fresh growth momentum.

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The job of policymakers is ideally to curb the build-up of speculative excesses.

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