Word: gluttingly
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...then president of Eastern Airlines, is 17 ft. by 46 ft.) is a bit like seeing one of the lost panoramas that were so popular in 19th century America scrolling creakily past, a journey re-created as spectacle, stripped of its pastoral imagery and retooled in terms of media glut. Hey, look! you hear the nasal voice of the artist saying: this is what the banks of the electronic Mississippi look like as they glide by. Here is a succession of odd dreams, bigger than life: a red fingernail the size of a mudguard, a slough of squirming orange spaghetti...
...turmoil to shake these once sturdy pillars of U.S. business. But in the past few years, plenty of trouble has come along to torment some of the most rock-solid names in each of those industries. Economic upheavals ranging from the oil-price slump to the glut of imported steel have forced giant banking and steel corporations to make dramatic adjustments to survive. Unfortunately, not all of them are going to make it. That became painfully clear last week, when the strains of economic change finally caught up with several companies and produced a chilling succession of financial calamities...
...report commissioned by British teachers and administrators reveals that in 1985 universities lost 1,404 staffers to industry or to universities abroad. The most attractive positions seem to be in the U.S., where the end of a ten-year Ph.D. glut and the imminent retirement of many senior faculty have made the emigres welcome. America's National Science Foundation counts 1,001 British scientists and engineers who entered the U.S. last year. Says David Ingram, vice chancellor of Kent University, Canterbury: "American universities have made it clear that they expect to solve their difficulties in recruiting new staff by taking...
Even the mastermind recalled it as "Black Sunday." Everything went wrong. The glut of visitors turned the Santa Ana Freeway into a seven-mile parking lot. Refreshment stands ran out of food and drink for the nearly 30,000 invited guests and thousands more ticket counterfeiters who stormed the gates. Rides broke down almost immediately. A gas leak forced the shuttering of Fantasyland. The day's corrosive heat sent women's spiked heels sinking into the asphalt on Main Street. Nor was this a debacle to be covered over with Tinker Bell dust; the whole sorry spectacle was broadcast...
...maldistribution of health care and the related problem of a physician "glut"--an overabundance of doctors in some areas--came to light five years ago in a government report that predicted by 1990 that there would be an excess of physicians in almost every specialty at the expense of community and general medicine, Dean for Students and Alumni at Harvard Medical School Daniel D. Federman '49 says...