It's almost as if Clapper and the intelligence community that he helms are playing up foreign threats in order to justify bloated post-9/11 budgets and broadly supported intelligence capabilities.
Indeed, despite what the band's bloated post-Scott stadium theatrics might have you misremember, the enduring legacy of pre-Back in Black AC/DC was the band's remarkable efficiency.
Much like Ollila, who turned Nokia around in the 1990s from a rather unfocused conglomerate into the world's biggest handset maker, Svanberg is credited with having cut the bloated, post-dotcom-boom's Ericsson into a leading mobile-network supplier in the last six years.
Black Friday is right around the corner, and shoppers are already being primed by retailers for the kind of buying gluttony that makes eater's remorse look like a bloated post-Thanksgiving walk in the park.
It's supposed to afflict bloated, self-indulgent, post-middle-aged clubmen (never women) who slump in leather armchairs, gorging on grouse, port and Stilton and railing against youth and modernity.
I learned this lesson the hard way, after more than one post-fondue, bloated, uncomfortable night's sleep.
When Lucien and Kyrill take her out on a nighttime romp through Paris, the trio end up at an operatic performance starring a bloated, fading tenor whose post-performance attention goes straight to Marguerite's head.
After a picture was posted revealing a bloated and unfit Johnson in a Manchester takeaway shop, City officials publicly confirmed that he had been released from his contract at the Etihad, due to expire at the end of the season.
Both parties have strong roots in the anti-communist underground; both claim to detest the bloated cronyism which flourished in the post-communist years.
In a post-Oscar season of bloated, complacent commercialism, it is especially bracing to encounter so many movies employing modest means in the service of large ambitions.
It also reflected boards' new sensitivity to post-Enron criticism about bloated compensation packages.
