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  • As European soccer's Financial Fair Play regulations ripple through the free-spending front offices of the Continent's clubs, Premier League teams are no longer simply able to throw money at holes in their rosters.

    Questions Over Golden Oldies 2012

  • The dissonance seems to reflect internal struggles within Mrs. Kirchner's team on whether Argentina will moderate its free-spending and interventionist policies in the second term, or whether it will offer more of the same, even though fewer resources are available.

    Tests Mount for Argentine Economy Matt Moffett 2011

  • There are some reasonable arguments for some of the other criticisms (Obama IS * more* socialist than, say, some republicans would be, even if he is not * very* socialist compared to lots of other people, including the bailout-pushing and free-spending big government GW Bush; Obama IS more muslim-respectful and experienced than most other candidates (to his credit), though obviously he is not a muslim).

    Discourse.net: Media Matters Patiently (Pointlessly?) Rebuts Each and Every Birther Claim 2009

  • Across the Atlantic, the Obama team—which has never met a country, bank, company or homeowner it didn't want to bail out—is pushing to refashion the ECB as a carbon copy of the free-spending Federal Reserve.

    How to Save the Euro Adam Lerrick 2011

  • And Marriott's plans are a sign the recovery isn't producing any more free-spending buyers.

    Dumping Timeshares Al Lewis 2011

  • From the chart, it looks like the increase in US per capita spending is not a lot less than the total per capita spending of even the most free-spending European countries.

    Matthew Yglesias » Defense Spending in Europe 2010

  • Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier's marriage to the flamboyant and free-spending Michelle Pasquet estranged the Haitian dictator from his father's old supporters.

    Former Tunisian First Lady, Despised By Nation, Draws Imelda Marcos Comparisons AP 2011

  • Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier's marriage to the flamboyant and free-spending Michelle Pasquet estranged the Haitian dictator from his father's old supporters.

    Former Tunisian First Lady, Despised By Nation, Draws Imelda Marcos Comparisons AP 2011

  • What cannot be denied is that Rangers have been in the spotlight, and in a way which was alien to them during the free-spending, occasionally brash years of the past decade.

    Rangers' cash mess will not make club go bust, says owner Craig Whyte 2011

  • These are tough times for businesses that count on free-spending consumers and the advertisers who pay to woo them.

    Ten Riskiest Retailers, Resorts And Radio Networks Chris Barth 2010

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