Word: overhanging
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...washed in from elsewhere and mixed, she says, because the rock shelter where they were found is more than 60 ft. above the surrounding terrain. Nor < could the objects have tumbled down from higher up on the cliff, says Guidon, since the cave is protected by a massive rock overhang that would have kept out both falling rock and flowing water...
...great number of pensioners. When you have a new Japanese transplant, the average age is much younger, with no pension cost and usually a healthier, newer work force. Even if we do better on our production side and do better on our material costs, we've still got that overhang of pensions and health care to take care of. That's something as a nation we'll have to address, because it's going to hurt us competitively if we can't get those costs under control...
Have the U.S. banks thus become obsolete? The answer is that they still have a role to play, but a far smaller one, since they are no longer the only game in town. Beset with an overhang of poor-quality loans from the 1980s and new challenges in all the bread-and-butter businesses, banks have lost their financial edge -- and then some. "The nonbank companies have smelled blood in the banking system, and they have moved in to gain market share," says Edward Yardeni, chief economist for the Wall Street firm C.J. Lawrence. "To survive, the banks are going...
Despite the stubborn overhang of consumer caution, cash registers have begun to ring more briskly at department stores and other big retail outlets, which were hard hit by the slump. In the first major sign that shoppers are returning, 13 of the top 20 U.S. retailers reported that sales last month increased over May 1990 levels...
Sure, reporters aren't supposed to cheer in the pressbox. But when Ted Donato ripped a slapshot past Rensselaer goaltender Sean Kennedy with five seconds left to play Saturday night, forcing overtime, the rulebook went out the window once again. The media types in Bright's west-end overhang screamed just as loudly as the rowdies in section...