Word: overhang
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...emerged unscathed, while 9 Tastes was hit with a grand total of 12 violations. Even though one of these 12 included a failure to be “vermin proof,” patrons of 9 Tastes seemed unfazed and unaware as they strolled out from under the blue overhang on John F. Kennedy St. “The food is excellent and very reasonably priced,” one woman from Watertown said. “You can get a full lunch with soup, appetizers, rice, say whatever, for seven dollars.” Harvard?...
...Second, just prior to the two oil-price spikes of the '70s, discretionary spending of U.S. households had become excessive?setting the stage for America's most severe consumer-led recessions. A similar overhang is evident today: spending for consumer durables and residential construction has averaged 14.3% of America's GDP over the past year. That's virtually identical to levels reached just before the energy-shock-induced consumption collapses...
...investment cycle, so the venture capitalists are returning to their roots. But because new technologies aren't ripe yet or there's a lack of people to make companies out of them, venture investors are not putting their money to work as aggressively as they should. They have an "overhang" to the tune of $50 billion. Others are still overpaying for some investments...
...little more than a year ago, a group of Harvard students spent one freezing Friday morning huddled under an overhang in Boston’s Government Center in the company of several local activists. They were trying to disseminate information among the line of men clutching documents that snaked through the lobby of the John F. Kennedy Federal Building...
Sergeant Roger Vazquez decided the bleeding attacker might still be a threat and sprinted into the street to drag him away and search him for weapons. He grabbed the man by the belt and started pulling him under an overhang. A machine gun opened up from the roof across the street, and bullets hit the dirt around Vazquez's feet. The gunman's body was stuck on the curb. "Leave him, leave him," shouted a soldier. Still Vazquez persevered, getting the man onto the sidewalk and out of the line of fire. Vazquez patted him down, taking...