But the plate trend is a controversial topic in a country where the citizens have a reputation for excessively spending on superficial items.
Unlike the U.S., Japan saved excessively instead of spending excessively.
If the financial crisis has taught us anything, it is that Americans save too little, spend too much, and borrow excessively.
There are also concerns about abuse by some managers of nonprofits, who pay themselves excessively while spending little on actual charity.
Should a country spend excessively or hold domestic interest rates too low, it would find it difficult to maintain its currency's tie to the dollar or, in the case of the United States, to gold.
The study ranks Britain 11th in the efficiency of its education system, higher than France or Germany (largely because these countries spend excessively on teacher salaries or allow them to a light teaching load).
drive them to spend excessively to impress their palates, vanities, friends or financial speculations, I'd suggest the Protestant admonition: "The average man has five senses: touch, taste, sight, smell and hearing.
We were spending excessively to counter the Soviet threat and I understood it.
Department of Education officials said they had identified a number of cases in which schools had spent excessively on photocopiers.
Opponents complain that the city government spends excessively on promoting Mr Ebrard and that contracts have been doled out to his political allies.
