Word: overlapping
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...valuable resource.” Boston will play its home-opener on May 19 against the Philadelphia Barrage, but with the Crimson men’s team slated to play its home-finale at Harvard Stadium just three weeks earlier, there is the potential for some overlap. Sullivan, however, said he isn’t worried. “They’re looking at some kind of early afternoon practice schedule, when the students would be in class,” he said. “It won’t have an effect on day-to-day availability...
...they seem happy to oblige in numerous ways. The new Somali Forum brings together members of a dozen different Somali organizations to ensure there's no overlap of services, and that no council funding or volunteer man hours are wasted. The Living Under One Sun project helps women of many cultures, often recently arrived in Britain. "There are many things women want to do, but don't know how to start," says Aynur Erisir, a Kurdish Turk who volunteers for the project. "Do you say 'Hi' to your neighbor, or not? Do you smile or not? You don't know...
...terms of the basic indicators of economic growth (now 3.5% annually) and unemployment (4.6%), he's right. But when you consider that 2% of current U.S. economic activity is the product of federal deficit spending and more than 6% is paid for with money borrowed from overseas (there is overlap between the two), strong doesn't seem quite the appropriate word. The bill is coming due--although probably not in northern Virginia, where federal spending is forever...
...autonomy of the Central Bank. Disapproval from abroad is even less tolerated, especially from Washington - Chavez told the U.S. to "go to hell" on Sunday after a state department spokesman said the reforms caused concern. Perhaps it is fitting, then, that Chavez's tightened grip on the economy should overlap with the exit of possibly the only government economist left willing to criticize...
...Once in a while the critics' awards will have little overlap with the Oscar nominations. It happens when critics go crazy for some genre-bending effort - like Far from Heaven in 2002 or A History of Violence last year - that most Academy members just don't get. But that's the exception, not the rule. In general, all five groups are reliable forecasters of Oscar nominations...