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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overregulate .
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Murdoch, who aired his grievances a couple of weeks ago over the "overregulated" and "overtaxed" nature of the U.K., may nod sympathetically at Whitman's gripes prior to her meeting with European Union Taxation Commissioner Laszlo Kovacs.
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This is, btw, in a nutshell why I wonder where the US is headed – Germany has always been an overregulated socialist state, but we appear to be headed in the same direction fast, with - crucially - all of the flaws and none of the benefits.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Licensing is Anti-Competitive — This Time, Its Personal 2010
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Remember, it was House Majority Leader Eric Cantor who told the American Bankers Association last week that we're not overregulated.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Debit Card Sharps: The Fight Over Wall Street's 'Invisible Tax' RJ 2011
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"The government has overtaxed, overreached, overregulated and we're paying the price," he said.
How Slam Dunk Became a Nail-Biter Stephanie Simon 2010
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Remember, it was House Majority Leader Eric Cantor who told the American Bankers Association last week that we're not overregulated.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Debit Card Sharps: The Fight Over Wall Street's 'Invisible Tax' RJ 2011
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I'd say that we still want cosy escapism - only our lives, objectively speaking, have become so safe, so devoid of all danger, so overregulated and so abundant and glorious that our escapism is the big and hairy underbelly of misery that we rarely know from first-hand experience.
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But who in the country is unaware that California is the most overregulated, micromanaged nanny state in the nation?
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Cantor added: "We are not overregulated, we are super-overregulated!"
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Yes America country that just went through one of the worst finical crises in history due to a failure to regulate is overregulated.
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Cantor added: "We are not overregulated, we are super-overregulated!"
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