It had felt greedy, excessive, imprudent.
For a question asking students to discuss why college costs are so high, Mr. Perelman wrote that the No. 1 reason is excessive pay for greedy teaching assistants.
Others were ruined by excessive taxation of greedy rulers, and still others, particularly in modern times, have simply been suppressed; the Soviet Union abolished all of its 17,500 fairs in 1930 as being "unsuited to the Soviet economic and political objective".
The economic "mess" had its origins in the subprime housing market and the excessive indebtedness of a greedy and materialistic public.
We like to ruin things by being greedy and excessive to the point of no return – it's just how we are, all flawed and dumb.
Many remember King the vocal opponent of violence, but not the King who called for massive nonviolent civil disobedience to challenge the stockpiling of weapons of death and the wars they fuel, and the excessive materialism of the greedy, which deprives the needy of the basic necessities of life.
In 2009, Arianna Huffington and Rob Johnson of the Huffington Post called on individuals to move their money out of these "too big to fail" institutions and put it into smaller, local banks that had avoided the excessive risk taking and greedy behavior leading up to the crisis.
Worse, they purport to be able to distinguish between a healthy level of profits and an "excessive" one something specialist antitrust authorities, not greedy governments, are best placed to judge.
While seniors certainly are better off than they were 40 or even 30 years ago, they are not a coterie of "greedy geezers" soaking up excessive benefits, as Senator Simpson has often portrayed them.
More recently an intermediate position has developed, which believes in the essential value of reductionism but decries its excessive implementation as the sin of greedy reductionism.
