But its most notable feature is the lively give-and-take, without refereeing, except for monitoring for obscene language and egregious crack-pottery.
The Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Schapiro floated the possibility of cracking down on a particularly egregious Wall Street habit at a congressional hearing Tuesday.
Instead, he thrived by using his knowledge of the financial markets to crack down on some of the most egregious abuses, making himself decidedly unpopular with the investment bankers.
Ever since the city's Sanitation Department cracked down on what it called the most egregious violators of the city's recycling law, Mr. Soto's building, on Ocean Avenue, has stepped up its recycling efforts to avoid the fate of six nearby apartment buildings that have been hit with hefty fines and told to clean up their acts.
For example, despite its claims that it was taking abuse more seriously, a BuzzFeed investigation from earlier this year found a number of egregious examples of abuse and threats that slipped through the cracks.
In mid-February, IRS agents cracked down on tax preparation businesses in Georgia, Texas, California, Florida and Louisiana for claiming "egregious" phone-tax refund amounts on behalf of their clients.
Nevertheless: Was it really necessary for yesterday's paper to run not one but two front-page softball features on egregious extreme-right-wing media provocateuses, Ann Al Gorere — total fag") Coulter and Pamela (Barack Obama — "involved with a crack whore in his youth") Gellar, splashed respectively across the front pages of the Sunday Styles and Metropolitan sections?
Late on Wednesday evening, the U.S. Senate passed, by unanimous consent no less, a long-overdue bill that will help to reform one of the most egregious aspects of our nation's criminal justice system — the staggering 100 to 1 sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and powder cocaine offenses.
These were egregious mistakes.
Electric excesses are egregious.
