Have We Become Too Flexible?

The retraction came too late.

He may be expecting too much.

Too slow will kill credibility, but too fast will kill growth.

We are using up too much of the planet s area.

Finally, monetary policy has been far too loose.

The result is a world that is messier and more dangerous than it should be.

Moreover, because profits are high in Europe, likely future increases in real interest rates needed to ensure price stability easily can be financed out of profits without economic disruption. The truth of the matter is that interest rates both nominal and real are too low in Europe, not too high.

They take their theories too seriously.

But Europeans should not expect too much.

We were doomed, because too many people would consume too much.

That burden is disproportionately borne by developing countries and impoverishing them further.

But the forecast proved to be far too optimistic.

Democracy from a French perspective looks too American.

Indeed, the Lebanon metaphor is too benign.

Ms. POLO FLOREZ (Colombia) agreed that the text should remain as it stood, except that she supported the suggestion to delete the word possible . The paragraph should be neither overly optimistic nor overly pessimistic.

Musharraf cannot permit the mullahs to become too strong.

TEMPE, ARIZONA The simplest way to describe fire worldwide is that there is too much of the wrong kind, too little of the right kind, and too much overall.

To many, Thai Myanmar relations are too cozy.

BRUSSELS Sometimes history can be too ironic.

In a nutshell it is wasteful to spend too much money preventing waste.

There is also concern that projects are overly concentrated in the Kabul area.

We're out of sugar.

But, as Krishnan notes, the word safety with regard to women has been used far too much.

Ever since de Gaulle, all candidates for the French presidency who started too early have lost.

Who benefits from evidence that an industry is too concentrated, its profit margins are too high, and consumers are being ripped off?

But confidence, like blood pressure, must be balanced the problem starts when you have too much or too little of it.

The puzzle is not only that long term rates are too low when viewed in the international context, but also that they are too low when viewed in America s domestic context.

And there was a drunk man on there, and he got up out of his seat two or three times, and he was making everybody upset by what he was trying to do.

We're out of sugar.

One lump of sugar, please.

But if you think about this, this is actually the Freakonomics authors wrote about this that more people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.

But consolidating too quickly can hurt the recovery and worsen job prospects.

Expansions usually start collapsing when labor gets too scarce and too expensive.

But they must try to ensure that they do not destroy incentives by doing too much.

Perhaps too much mention it, and suddenly everyone Muslim or not is an expert.

Simply put, we live in a world in which there is too much supply and too little demand. The result is persistent disinflationary, if not deflationary, pressure, despite aggressive monetary easing.

Hence the reliability test in its current form was too demanding for business purposes and fell short of what was needed in other cases for public protection.

It is for the Member States to ensure that we are not imposing too many tasks on the Secretariat and spreading resources too thinly.

But it is a mistake to count too much on hard or soft power alone.

For some, this approach will seem overly modest. But this is not yet the time for great ambition.

Some investment banks prospered (in Goldman Sachs case, perhaps too much), others collapsed.

Okay? There's sugar in everything.

He likes coffee without sugar.

Ten years after the Programme's adoption, a lot still needs to be done, and too many Member States have not given the Programme the attention it deserves.