Critics of the provision, which was approved in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, say it was an excessive grant of authority to the F.B.I. and Justice Department that threatened privacy and fundamental constitutional rights.
In recent years, before the financial system imploded, we have had scandals involving the excessive granting of stock options, backdating options, misuse of executive perks, golden parachutes, over-generous pensions and so on.
With the current wave of bankruptcies and missed earnings, directors may draw even more heat as investors focus on excessive option grants, high executive pay and cost overruns.
With $2.66 trillion under management at stock funds registered in the United States, fund managers could be a powerful force in protecting shareholders from pernicious managerial practices -- like excessive stock options grants and cozy boards.
For instance, as for constraint (iii), one request was to maintain a reasonably realistic training capacity without excessive allocation of grants in a given year.
"So not excessively excessive.
That should be a chance for Congress to give serious consideration to curtailing some of the excessive powers it granted to the executive branch during the Bush years — without enough consideration in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and later.
The collective argument of these dissidents is not only that inequality violates moral values, but that it also interacts with a money-driven political system to grant excessive power to the most affluent.
The Luxembourgs maintained the negotiations until Charles of Moravia, who had granted excessive concessions to the pope, gained all electoral votes except the two of the house of Wittelsbach and thus was elected king (July 1346).
This strategy was effective because Southern juries were inclined to grant excessive damage awards against those who embarrassed the South.
