Although a small amount of fines was required to recover bitumen in the absence of process aids, an excess of fines was always detrimental to bitumen recovery.
Research by John Armour, Colin Mayer and Andrea Polo at Oxford University's law faculty and the Saïd Business School, and Jonathan Karpoff at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business, shows that when a corporate action harms investors (for example through fake accounting) or customers (for example through shoddy products), the company's share price drops far in excess of a fine.
The judge was reluctant because what my dad proposed was far in excess of the usual fine, but he convinced him that it would teach me a lesson.
I know of one person who now has in excess of $7,000 in fines from being caught drinking in a dry zone, and it's likely he will end up in jail.
Whereas impoundments are characterised by deposition and an excess of sediment with remobilisation of fine sediments during severe floods, the remaining five free flowing sections of the Danube are experiencing river bed erosion of the order of several centimetres per year.
The reacting case yields a resolution in excess of 75% on the finest grid arguably sufficient to permit conclusions regarding the accuracy of submodels.
A four-fold molar excess of reducing agent in a fine granulated formulation with 46TiO2, pressures <5 × 10−3 mbar and temperatures of 950 1000 °C were identified to be crucial conditions to achieve maximum yields.
"While Virginia Tech's violations warrant a fine far in excess of what is currently permissible under the statute, the Department's fine authority is limited," wrote Mary Gust, director of a departmental panel that dictated what punishment the school would receive.
Girardi was also fined in excess of $500.
See articleIn the week that Bank of America was preparing to pay fines in excess of $16 billion for mis-selling mortgage-backed securities, its shareholders received some good news when the Fed said that it had no objections to the bank's revised capital plan.
