Chasing awards is a profligate use of client money and a detriment to their business requirements.
Even for a profligate superpower, that is a considerable stake, and America's recently expressed dissatisfaction with General Musharraf should be measured against it.
In my view, one of the main faults of the Bush administration, in conjunction with a profligate Republican Congress, was that they squandered the surpluses that we now need.
Indeed, the State of California is said to have a major debt problem, but does anyone think for a second that Apple or Occidental Petroleum would pay higher rates of interest on debt solely for operating in a state run by a profligate government?
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Compared with Ferrante, Thomas Pynchon is a publicity profligate.
That impression, already battered, will be impossible to sustain if the ECB ends up giving a liquidity lifeline to profligate governments for long.
If profligate members of a currency union know that their reckless spending and borrowing will always be bailed out by a central bank, they will have an incentive to borrow as much as they dare relative to the balance sheets of the more prudent members of the currency union, rather than to their own balance sheets.
The unfortunate bailouts of profligate homeowners were to a high degree a symptom of a weak dollar that made housing so initially attractive to begin with.
Now, the trial will serve as a further lesson in financial responsibility to profligate royals.
Nor is there much in the notion that, once a single currency is in operation, profligate sovereign borrowers will weaken it or push up interest rates.
It is true that, thanks in part to rising commodity prices, a buoyant world economy and less-profligate governments, many emerging economies are in better shape than they were.
Instead, we have a crisis of insolvency, first among certain profligate governments and second among banks.
The time-honoured way for a Republican opposition to undermine a Democratic president is to depict him as profligate with the nation's treasure and careless of its security.
America spends 53% more per head than the next most profligate country and almost two-and-a-half times the rich-country average.
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They had hired people who were not Oklahoma citizens to gather petition signatures for a referendum to impose spending limits on Oklahoma's profligate legislators.
Instead Greece used the comfort cushion of an 8% reduction in debt service charges to borrow so that profligate state benefit programmes could be expanded in a quest to by votes.
Without it, argue critics, the markets would simply mark down the debts of profligate countries without damaging the euro's fortunes as a whole.
And there remains the possibility of a delayed reaction to current price levels, as consumers, particularly profligate Americans, turn to less thirsty cars and appliances.
Last fall, for instance, we worked with Intuit subsidiary Quicken, issuing a report on Mustached Americans being in greater financial need due to their profligate spending habits on ladies, leather pants and teeth whitening.
And it did so, despite the evident discomfort within the institution about being even "one leg" of a programme which to many of them feels like the central bank letting profligate governments and unwise private investors off the hook.
Unfortunately, for people like myself who believe that there is a compelling business case for protecting the environment, data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration today showing that U.S. GHG emissions dropped a whopping 5.8% in 2009 will likely reinforce the perception that profligate pollution is good for economic growth.
But without strict conditions on profligate states and the imposition of losses on reckless creditors, all are taking a free ride on Germany.
They did pull one back when the previously profligate Hernandez turned beautifully to lose the flat-footed Martin DeMichelis before burying a shot beyond Sergio Romero.
Otherwise, he reasoned, a country might qualify to join the euro only to revert, once inside, to its former profligate borrowing.
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The filmmaker Ondi Timoner seems destined to have made this documentary, about the profligate and elusive Internet pioneer Josh Harris, because, as her film reveals, she was a participant in some of its most dramatic events.
The problem is not so much the budget deficit (though Greece was certainly profligate) as the net foreign borrowing by all actors, public and private (say to finance a trade deficit).
More recently profligate countries in the euro zone have hidden behind German fiscal credibility and low interest rates to build a way of life that they could not afford, and which the Greek debt crisis blew apart a few months ago.
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