Word: gluts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tremendously devastating not only to Crystal City but to the entire northern Virginia region," Norris said, citing a potential glut of four million square feet of office space precipitated by the move...
...instructive hit too. The glut of youth-oriented shows seems to have created a viewer backlash. Matlock and In the Heat of the Night, two old- timers canceled by NBC last year, are back and doing well on new networks. NBC executives have acknowledged that they probably moved too fast to junk aging shows and replace them with youth-oriented sitcoms. It is no accident that CBS, the one network that has stayed aloof from the youthquake, is No. 1 in the ratings, with "mature" shows like Murder, She Wrote, 60 Minutes and Evening Shade...
Physicians and health care experts acknowledge this trend, and express concern that the U.S. will be left without adequate levels of basic care. Instead, Americans face a glut of specialists who tend to charge more per visit. Specialists claim greater expertise and more experience. But they bypass a critical--yet less expensive--step in the health care process. It's a waste for a patient to visit a neurologist for a head cold checkup. It's a waste for the physician, as well...
...Prize lucidly chronicles the recurring cycle of glut and shortage that has marked oil's history. It brings a fresh perspective to even the most familiar events. "Oil is the untold story of World War II," begins one episode -- which then tells that story in rich detail: how higher-octane fuel helped British planes outmaneuver their German foes during the Battle of Britain; how gasoline shortages slowed down Rommel and frustrated Patton; how the fuel situation in Germany near the war's end was so dire that a newly developed jet had to be toted onto the runway by cows...
...season to be jowly. After pursuing the youth market most of the year, Hollywood devotes December to prestige films aimed not at the huge post- Christmas audience but at the senior citizens in the Motion Picture Academy. The goal is a batch of Oscar nominations; the reality is a glut of ambitious pictures that give no one a very merry Christmas. Of seven holiday movies, all but one ignore Hollywood's hard-learned rules of storytelling...