Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...marine scientists conducted an experiment off the coast of Belize that proves this point. To keep fish out, the researchers surrounded a section of coral the size of a small pasture with a chicken-wire fence. Within 10 weeks, they found, the area inside the fence had been completely overgrown by seaweed and many of the corals had died...
...remember the first shirt I acquired in college. The black ink on white fabric design that commemorated a week of sweating and cutting weeds in an overgrown lot in Roxbury gave an auspicious start to my collection...
...state, there's a huge disparity in federal Medicaid spending. New York and Washington, for example, collect an average of $2,000 per poor person, while in Idaho and Kansas it's about $500. With that much federal money running through the system, some states have helped create an overgrown health-care industry and health-care bureaucracy, both of which could stand some pruning. Other states have whole departments devoted to scamming more Medicaid money from the Federal Government. And when it comes to services, some optional benefits, like adult dental care or eyeglasses, might be trimmed on the theory...
...much of the world still honors this middle-aged venture is evident, then. But among some Western nations that designed it, at least, the U.N. today often appears worse than dowdy. To them it looks oafish, overgrown, hypocritical, rife with ineptitude and possibly--as some overwrought Americans insist on seeing it--downright wicked. By this light, the creation of a half-century ago comports with reality now about as much as the cookie-cutter shapes of its East River edifices still evoke an idealized modernity. Budget-strapped, groping for a fresh start, the U.N. seems to slouch toward the millennium...
...Lillehammer, Norway, led the three-time Winter Games gold medalist to consider retiring. His father, among others, talked him out of it, Tomba says. Last summer he trained intensively in Argentina and Chile, shedding the between-competition flab that at times has made La Bomba look more like an overgrown bambino. He returned in harder shape and, with age catching up on him, more determined than ever...