He acknowledged that managed- care consumers need protection from corporate excesses.

He said companies seemed to be trimming corporate excesses that had built up during the rapid expansion of the 1990's.

Thus another of the corporate excesses of the 1980's is being reversed.

He has become a national symbol of American-style corporate excess.

Another of the corporate excesses of the 1980's is being reversed in executive suites across the country.

There has been a civil war and reconstruction after a period of corporate excess.

Yet for all their cultural bravado, Republicans are watching with increasing nervousness the response of voters to job losses and corporate excesses.

After this period of corporate excess, people are yearning for loyalty and commitment to country.

Democrats say Wal-Mart is a potent symbol of corporate excess.

Both cases have come to symbolize the government's effort to crack down on corporate excesses of the 1990's.