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Find The Hobbit a little bloated? How about a slimmed down four hour version more in keeping with J.R.R. Tolkien's original?

Is New York Fashion Week Near End of Runway?

By ERIC WILSON

The Lincoln Center site draws fire from many directions, as the schedule gets busier and crowds grow unwieldy.

ADMINISTRATION

Harvard Defies National Administrative Growth Trend Harvard has defied a trend of administrative bloat experienced among U.S. private research institutions from 2000 to 2012, which have seen on average a 24 percent decrease in the ratio of full time faculty and staff to administrators, a new report shows.

"Mickelsson describes Philosophy Department as a 'treacherous, ego-bloated, murder-stained hovel.' Ah, the groves of aceldama!" — Margaret Manning; Book Review; Boston Globe; May 30, 1982.


 FOREIGN companies love to complain about doing business in China. The rules of the game are rigged against them, they grouse, the locals are corrupt and the government is always turning the thumbscrews on them.



 As for software, HTC’s flavor of Android isn’t as bloated as Samsung’s. Hold down the home button, and you go straight to Google search, not some tacked on virtual assistant like Samsung’s S Voice. I’m not a fan of HTC’s home screen, which places a ticker of news headlines front-and-center, but you can move this ticker (called “BlinkFeed”) off to one of your side screens. Or you can do what I did: Install Nova Launcher, which replaces the home screen but preserves all of the phone’s other useful features, such as HTC’s custom lock screen and camera app.

The Trade: The Volcker Rule, Made Bloated and Weak
Bank lobbyists could not kill the Volcker Rule, so Jesse Eisinger of Propublica says they got Congress and regulators to render it hopelessly vague and complex.


1 Soldier or 20 Schools?
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Let’s take a chunk out of our bloated military budget in Afghanistan and use it to invest in building schools there instead.

Google’s Chief Works to Trim a Bloated Ship

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER

Larry Page returned to the helm of Google to find it bloated, unwieldy and hard to move quickly. He’s working to change all that.

MySpace is cutting staff deeply, bringing its U.S. staff down to about 1,000. CEO Van Natta said staffing was "bloated."


One goal of this latest plan was to convince the Obama administration, which has been skeptical of G.M.’s previous restructuring goals, that the company is willing to take harsh measures and cut its bloated infrastructure to match its steadily declining share in the United States.


The received wisdom associates gout with debauchery and decadence. It’s supposed to afflict bloated, self-indulgent, post-middle-aged clubmen (never women) who slump in leather armchairs, gorging on grouse, port and Stilton and railing against youth and modernity. Definitely not people like me.

At Peugeot, New Boss Faces Stubborn Woes

Peugeot Citroën's new CEO will have to deal with manufacturing overcapacity and a bloated cost structure just as closing factories in France has become politically impossible.

India's economy
What's holding India back?

Mar 6th 2008
From The Economist print edition

Failure to reform a bloated civil service is putting the country's huge economic achievements at risk

 Greece Seeks More Cuts as Deadlines Loom

Greece is seeking billions of euros of additional budget cuts and looks poised to announce the first steps toward streamlining its bloated public sector ahead of the return of a troika of international inspectors to Athens this week.

SUN VALLEY, Idaho — With the news of China renewing Google’s license to operate in that country, the Allen & Company conference here has become a bit of a waiting game for reporters.
Specifically, waiting for Google’s troika of top executives (who hinted at this possibility on Thursday).




waiting game
Meaning #1: a strategy of delay

troika
n.

1. 1. A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
   2. A team of three horses abreast.
2. See triumvirate (sense 4).

[Russian troĭka, from troje, group of three.]

[名]

1 トロイカ（ロシアの3頭立馬車・そり）；（それを引く）横に並べた3頭の馬.

2 三頭制, トロイカ体制, 3人組.

［ロシア語troye(3)＋-ka（名詞語尾）］

bloated Show phonetics
adjective ━━ a. ふくれた, 膨張した; いばっている.
1 swollen and rounded because of containing too much air, liquid or food:
a bloated stomach
a bloated (= uncomfortably full) feeling

2 DISAPPROVING unnecessarily large or wealthy:
a bloated bureaucracy
a bloated capitalist

bloat Show phonetics
verb [I or T]
to swell up, or to make someone or something bloated:
If I eat it, my stomach bloats up.

verb

• make or become swollen with fluid or gas: [with object]: the fungus has bloated their abdomens (as noun bloating) she suffered from abdominal bloating
  

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noun

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• a disease of livestock characterized by an accumulation of gas in the stomach.
  

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Origin

late 17th century: from obsolete bloat 'swollen, soft', perhaps from Old Norse blautr 'soft, flabby'.

bloating Show phonetics
noun [U]
He suffered from indigestion and bloating.


gorge (EAT)
verb [I or R]
to eat until you are unable to eat any more:
[R] If you gorge yourself on crisps like that, you won't eat your dinner.

grouse (COMPLAIN)
verb [I] INFORMAL
to complain angrily:
She's always grousing about how she's been treated by the management.

grouse  
noun [C] plural grouses INFORMAL
an angry complaint

rail (COMPLAIN)
verb [I + preposition] FORMAL
to complain angrily:
He railed against/at the injustices of the system.

bloated
adj.

1. Much bigger than desired: a bloated bureaucracy; a bloated budget.
2. Medicine. Swollen or distended beyond normal size by fluid or gaseous material.

thumbscrew

Pronunciation: /ˈθʌmskruː/

noun

• 1 (usually thumbscrews) an instrument of torture for crushing the thumbs.

2a screw with a protruding winged or flattened head for turning with the thumb and forefinger.

unwieldy

Syllabification: (un·wield·y)

Pronunciation: /ˌənˈwēldē/

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adjective (unwieldier, unwieldiest)

• difficult to carry or move because of its size, shape, or weight:the first mechanical clocks were large and unwieldy
• (of a system or bureaucracy) too big or badly organized to function efficiently.

Derivatives

unwieldily
adverb

unwieldiness
noun

Origin:

late Middle English (in the sense 'lacking strength, infirm'): from un-¹ 'not' + wieldy (in the obsolete sense 'active')