Word: overhanging
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...graduate student and a postdoctoral researcher met under an Oxford Street overhang in Saturday’s near-freezing rain to heave cannonball-like weights over their heads as many times as they could manage...
BOSTON—Approximately six hundred local college students and community members rallied in support of more funding for global AIDS prevention and treatment, braving wet and frigid weather yesterday underneath the concrete overhang of City Hall...
...represents one of the strongest architect-client collaborations of the modern period. Brown and Neutra exchanged over 150 letters, telegrams and memos during the duration of the project, and the Browns were often intimately involved in the smallest of decisions, from the color of a bathroom to the overhang of a roof. “My purposes in building this home in the modern style,” Brown wrote to Neutra in the fall of 1936, “are threefold: first I wish the home to be comfortable and convenient to live in; secondly, I hope it will...
...great unknowable is the significance of American businesses' overinvestment from 1998 to 2000. The buying spree was fueled by the Y2K frenzy, hype that the Internet was the greatest thing since the electric light, and a stock market that rewarded companies that predicted outrageous demand for their products. The overhang of those purchases may depress business investment for another year, however cheap the Fed makes it to borrow...
...they now rest at just .05%. The Japanese government has spent more money on public works than any other country in the world, but blowing all that cash has been useless. There is a hole in the center of Japan--a deep lack of confidence that comes from an overhang of trash loans from the early '90s and from a decade of failed policy. Smart Japanese consumers are nervously waiting for those loans to blow up. So encouraging consumers to start spending is like encouraging a man strapped to a time bomb to fix his hair. They have other things...