More egregiously, they passed a bill to abolish direct elections for hundreds of local posts (such as mayor of Solo and governor of Jakarta) and to have the jobs filled by indirect elections in local legislatures instead.
To be sure, had Mr Odinga won, the scourge of corruption would have remained scarcely less potent.Second, and more egregiously, the election did little to dispel the old bane of tribalism.
Car companies are equipping vehicles with "flex-fuel" capability, so they can run on either petrol or ethanol blends.All biofuels cost more than petrol, but some are egregiously wasteful.
One deal has the Socialists backing an early poll and dumping their more egregiously corrupt members in return for a big role in a post-election government.Failing that, the Socialists might team up with the battered Liberals, in return for Mr Tariceanu's job.
But with crop prices now falling, taxpayers are braced to be fleeced again.In this section Pro choice At last, a proper recovery Nannies v Al Capone Milking taxpayers A law for war Hearts of Dixie All tied up in the Bible belt A true believer meets reality ReprintsAmerican farm subsidies are egregiously expensive, harvesting $20 billion a year from taxpayers' pockets.
This became known as the Greenspan put after 1987, the first time it was clearly used but it was used many times, arguably most egregiously in 1998 after the collapse of LTCM.The end game of this process seems clear in retrospect, even though it may not have been at the time.
The son of an FBI agent and a proponent of the death penalty, Mr Cooley can point out the obvious that the law is often egregiously unjust and still be considered tough.His Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, agrees with him on three strikes, but has so far been more circumspect.
"It became clear to me," Mr Ellsberg says, that they "had no idea, no clue, even the best of them, just how often and how egregiously they were lied to".
Naturally the subway drivers or policemen concerned put in heroic overtime in that final year.Reform has been vigorously opposed, perhaps most egregiously in education, where charter schools, vouchers, academies and merit pay all faced drawn-out battles.
You might call him absent-minded if you did not know that he has also been a sharp-eyed investment banker and an egregiously numerate shadow Treasury spokesman.This week Mr Letwin, crime victim, gave what was billed as a policy-changing speech on how Conservatives ought nowadays to think about crime.
In macroeconomic terms it looks a bit risky but not egregiously so: it will return the public finances to a small deficit in 2002-03, and will thus mean a looser fiscal policy.
