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Obama Vows To Address Record Deficit Woes [Obama Blames Bush for "Profligacy"]
Latest Articles 2010
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"Profligacy," says Emerson, "consists not in spending, but in spending off the line of your career.
The Call of the Twentieth Century An Address to Young Men David Starr Jordan 1891
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Profligacy has undermined them where they might have run up cricket scores yet, ultimately, the focus has been drawn away from the chances spurned to those conceded.
Chelsea on message but André Villas-Boas needs to work on method 2011
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To me, the silver lining to the European disaster is the message I hope it sends: Profligacy has a limit.
Liz Ann Sonders, Schwab's chief investment strategist, sees a choppy ride up 2010
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To me, the silver lining to the European disaster is the message I hope it sends: Profligacy has a limit.
Liz Ann Sonders, Schwab's chief investment strategist, sees a choppy ride up Anne Kates Smith 2010
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Profligacy has been our mark, and not in a sacred manner.
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The Coppersblog team have therefore been granted life membership of the Deceit and Profligacy Club.
Shoplifters Of The World Unite « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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Profligacy, excess and greed aren't merely vulgar and offensive, they're inimical to our collective sustainability, and therefore to our self-interest.
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The first of these is "The Crisis of Profligacy" a well chosen title from the root word profligate, meaning licentious, dissolute, recklessly extravagant, all coming from the Latin root indicating to strike down or overthrow.
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