The recent flood of actions against companies has damaged the reputation of many private entities, but it has also done serious harm to America's legal system and the rule of law.
The radical rescue measures, designed to be flexible but also modelled on the emergency plan unveiled last week by Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling, are expected to be followed by a flood of legislative action this week as key governments in the eurozone move to shore up their national markets and systems.
UPDATE The Tobacco Docket The tobacco companies are facing a flood of court actions that involve hundreds of individual actions and scores of class-action lawsuits in this country alone.
But Yorkshire Water faces a challenge in Goole, where the Carr Lane pumping station was flooded out of action and the company initially fudged about whether things had gone seriously wrong.
Randel K. Johnson, vice president for labor policy at the United States Chamber of Commerce, said the proposed regulations -- 13,000 words, down from the existing 31,000 -- should help slow the flood of class-action lawsuits in which many higher-paid workers assert that they were wrongly denied overtime.
If it's a hit, expect a flood of live-action 3-D movies.
"In my 30 years in practice, I've never seen such a flood of desire and action to transfer a business and cash out," said Kenneth K. Bezozo, a partner in New York with the law firm Haynes & Boone.
"In my 30 years in practice, I've never seen such a flood of desire and action to transfer a business and cash out," said Kenneth K. Bezozo, a partner in New York with the law firm Haynes and Boone.
During the battles of Bosnia and Kosovo, in 1993 and 1999, call placed "embeds" — full-time liaison officers — with the soldiers; it now has two in Afghanistan and five in Iraq, and also receives a flood of daily "after action reviews" from line officers.
Among a flood of last-minute actions by the Clinton administration late last week was a proposal to allow the Hopi Indians to gather hatchling golden eagles from nests at a national monument in Arizona for an ancient sacrificial ritual.
