We can expect naught but perfect perfidy from the people who vote themselves sweetheart benefits and outrageous special privileges and then do not do their job.
The first involves French air traffic controllers, a band of pirates whose ability to paralyse the skies over France has left them with outrageous perks and privileges, spelled out in minute detail in a recent report by the Cours des Comptes, the powerful French budgetary watchdog.
Filibustering the president's nominees, they said, would be an outrageous abuse of senatorial privilege.
What happened to the privilege to wear outrageous colors?
By privileging these episodes – outrageous as they are – racism is basically reduced to the level of a private, individual indiscretion made public.
We have looked for common features in this thriving industry which by law caps each fund at 99 investors by the traditional definition (499 if they have $5 million to invest)–and have come up with the following definition: A hedge fund is any investment company that is unregulated, has limited redemption privileges and charges outrageous fees.
If we knew who the inheritors of unearned privilege were, would we find their antics amusing or outrageous?
Mr Starr was trying to obtain notes of conversations between Vince Foster, a White House aide, and his lawyer, shortly before Mr Foster's suicide in 1993.See article: Legal privilege and the deadPresident Clinton denounced as "shocking and outrageous" the murder of a black man by whites in east Texas.
"It's outrageous that some energy suppliers are leaving their customers dangling on the phone, in some cases even paying for the privilege, for anything up to half an hour," said Richard Lloyd, the executive director of Which?
A threat to cut the "privileges" of all car owners, because of the awful behavior of some of them, would rightly be regarded as an outrageous idea.
