Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thing, the region's entrepreneurs are not what they used to be. By and large, Asian institutions that looked on paper like modern corporations were really overgrown family firms, whose growth depended on the personal wealth of their owners and their ability to leverage that wealth through bank loans. Well, it will be a long time before Asian banks are able or willing to provide the kind of funding they used to--and, in any case, the entrepreneurs, their fortunes slashed by the crisis, cannot provide the necessary collateral...
...daylight looks convincingly real as it filters into the castle through the newly opened windows, and one of the most touching scenes occurs as Frederic walks Svetlana out into the overgrown garden after they have triumphed over Dracula. But this is merely the finale to one of the most impressive displays of lighting I've seen. A shadowy darkness continually permeates Dracula's castle yet somehow we are always able to see the dancers clearly. And during the village scene in the second act, a warm glow is cast over the entire scene to further enhance the dichotomy between...
...genealogy, as any veteran will tell you, is no cushy computer-desk job. Its aficionados are besieging National Archives branches and county historical societies, rummaging through newspapers' microfilm, tramping through rural courthouses and overgrown cemeteries. Each year 800,000 people visit the Mormons' Family History Library in Salt Lake City...
...walk around the weeds onto the street and into the oncoming traffic just because it was so overgrown," Kershner says...
Dombeck, who has traveled more than his share of forest roads, agrees that they cause problems. But he's not a "zero cut" forester; he believes there's a place for the timber industry on federal lands. Without harvesting, he points out, forests become overgrown and can be destroyed as quickly by fires as they are by overlogging...