Word: overboard
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Legislators have often gone overboard in trying to curb citizens' behavior, but reality eventually sets in. Now, even as some state legislatures repeal their centuries-old bans on Sunday liquor sales, other lawmakers are trying novel ways of cracking down on leisurely lewdness and lollygagging. Here are some of the latest no-nos legislators have been drafting. --By Jeremy Caplan...
...have the structure of classes to help me plan my time, so it’s difficult to know how much time to dedicate to each thing,” he said. “I feel the only way to be certain is to go overboard. I feel like I have to do every practice problem, and I have to write three drafts...
...they have been emboldened by election results that they took as affirmation that most Americans share not only their faith but also their belief that the nation has lost bearings” is equally scary. But in the end, I think we’re going a bit overboard...
...crowd was singing every word, watching every move, and cheering every note. On the set closer “Life and How to Live It,” a true shoulda-been-a-hit from 1985’s Fables of the Reconstuction, the band went just a tad overboard, with the fiercely energetic boom of the guitars and drums drowning out Stipe and Mills’s murmuring vocals...
...working." The equation hadn't always seemed so simple. When Howard called the election on Aug. 29, he went into the campaign with his mantle askew, hounded by an increasingly confident Opposition over claims by a former advisor that he had lied over the so-called children-overboard affair during the 2001 election campaign, and briefly caught up in an embarrassing public debate over whether he should submit to a lie-detector test over the issue. Labor believed the election should be fought on voter distrust of the political veteran, but Howard skillfully turned their jibes around. The election would...