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• “Numerous insurers have obtained permission from home-state regulators to deviate from what they term overly conservative rules.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Fitch Cuts Ratings on Principal, Genworth Life Insurance Units

• “Mr. Christie repeatedly uses the example of his own health-care package, which he calls overly generous, as an example of why public employees need to pay more for their health care.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Christie Attacks Double Dipping

• “Piyush Tiwari, who works in finance for American Express, escaped what he called his overly air-conditioned office for a 15-minute break.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Record-High Heat Scorches Region

• “The PAC also criticized the bowls for what it called overly generous perks, citing the $750,000 in travel expenses for the Orange Bowl in 2009 and the Sugar Bowl's $200,000 in "gifts and bonuses" in 2008; and "frivolous" use of funds, such as the Orange Bowl spending more than $1 million in entertaining and catering in 2009, and the Fiesta Bowl shelling out nearly $400,000 for its "Fiesta Frolic" golf retreat in 2009.”

  The Huffington Post: Do College Football Bowl Games Violate Their Tax-Exempt Status?

• “Telstra executives have been critical of what they described as overly onerous government regulations.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Telstra Faces Criticism From Major Investor

• “Buss hated what she referred to as her overly decorated festively feminine-sounding first name, insisting always on being addressed simply as "Miss Francis Buss.”

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• “Reynolds said he told Hastert what he calls overly friendly e-mails from 2005 but both men insist they were not aware of more explicit messages from 2003.”

  CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2006

• “House speaker Hastert says, although he was told of what he called overly friendly e-mail exchange sent to the former page, Hastert says he only learned of those more sexually explicit messages this past week.”

  CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2006

• “MCINTYRE: This was not the glass-half-full Rumsfeld that people were used to seeing opening the Pentagon briefing with broadsides against what he called overly negative press coverage.”

  CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2006

• “In a speech before he quit as chairman, Mr. Tomlinson said he had no regrets over "aggressively" trying to balance what he called overly liberal programming.”

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