Word: overextend
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...Although office hours with a teaching assistant would be ideal, given the understandable constraints of tight budgets, even having the option to email evaluators with questions is worthwhile and preferable to a complete lack of contact. Although large classes are often the norm at some universities, schools should never overextend enrollment of classes to the point where they do not have the adequate resources—both physical and human—to accommodate all of the students...
Damali E. Brown, one of the two first-year students chosen to lead the program after its creators graduate, said that the leaders wanted to make sure that—while involving as many students as possible—they did not overextend the program in a way that limited benefits for the organization...
...courageous effort, her life ended by two shattered front ankles, called up memories of Barbaro, that brilliant colt ruined by a broken leg at the Preakness two years ago. Inevitably, people asked if some moral rot has crept into the sport of kings, wherein immature horses are urged to overextend themselves on legs that snap like icicles...
...true cause of Republican misfortunes. Unless the Republican Party acknowledges the problems with its post-9/11 foreign policy and returns to its rational, restrained roots, either it will die out, as Americans refuse to trust it any longer at the helm of our country, or it will overextend our military so much that our efforts to preserve peace and prevent the spread of nuclear weapons will collapse...
...anyone. Even students who spent time in modern cities and large universities noticed a key difference from Harvard. After spending the fall semester in Paris, Amanda M. Gann ’06 says she felt a transformation in how she viewed time management. “At Harvard, people overextend themselves and I was sort of the worst culprit of that before I left,” says Gann, who studied at La Sorbonne. What separates Panarelli’s and Datar’s experiences from students like Gann’s is perhaps the tremendous difference in lifestyle...