Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presenting what must have been an exhaustive process of disengagement as a cinch to untangle. His rapid-fire style is possible because Wolff refuses to become mired in the devastations of youth. The straightforward manner could only be assumed by someone who has weeded an overgrown and tangled history and arrived at a resolution with which he can comfortably live...
Even if you overlook the fact that the proposal is just so much political baggage, however, the content of the legislation is grounds enough for dismissal. It is ironic that the Washington outsider whose 1976 campaign platform promised to pare down the overgrown federal blob has thrown his support behind a proposal that will further crowd the Washington community and further extend a tradition of Washington mismanagement. A separate cabinet-level Department of Education, is the easy way out. For more than 30 years, education has been the orphan child of the Washington bureacracy--drifting from the Interior Department...
Meantime, the public sector in the past three decades has consumed more and more of the nation's gross national product (32.5% in 1978). An exorbitantly overgrown system of regulation has turned prudent Government watchfulness over private industry into virtually perpetual interference, and thereby chilled enthusiasm for investment. Moreover, the business of business, unglamorous and vaguely unpopular in the U.S. for at least several generations, is portrayed as all-purpose villain at the very moment when it should be stimulated to its greatest exertions. Communications across the barriers of attitude become difficult. Too many Americans cherish a doctrinaire repugnance...
...shadow cabinet, was installed as her personal chief of staff. Sir Derek Rayner, 53, joint managing director of Marks & Spencer, one of Thatcher's own favorite shopping haunts, was named chief waste cutter, as it were. His assignment is to cut fat and improve efficiency in the overgrown bureaucracy of Whitehall...
Above the church, on the hill above Moras En Valloire, is the Madonna, a huge statue erected in 1854 to watch over and protect the village. She was once the pride of the town, but today the short path to her base is overgrown, and she rarely receives visitors these days. At one time she was lit up at night, but the lights were smashed a decade ago and nobody has taken the time to replace them...