Word: overran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last someone in this nation of sheep has the guts to stand up against the spoiled college brats. These wet-behind-the-ears babies overran their parents, and their school administrators, and now they are after the President and the United States of America...
...Communist troops still estimated to be in Cambodia, moreover, are moving swiftly to establish new supply lines. Even now they are knitting together a river network that will supplement the Ho Chi Minh Trail. In southern Laos, North Vietnamese regulars two weeks ago overran Attopeu, a town on a Mekong River tributary called the Se Kong; last week they menaced Saravane, another strategically located town. Along the Mekong in northern Cambodia, Communist troops have captured Kratie and Chhlong; last week they attacked Stung Treng, a key town at the confluence of the Se Kong and the Mekong, and sent...
Another anniversary, perhaps more instructive in 1970 than V-E day, passed unmarked in the U.S. last week. On May 7, 1954, Viet Minh troops overran the 10,000-soldier garrison of French Brigadier General Christian de Castries at Dienbienphu...
...Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. TPP was designed to end overrun claims by setting a strict ceiling on the final cost of any project. It penalized contractors who exceeded the ceilings but held out the reward of higher profits to those who reduced production costs. As Lockheed's costs overran the total package price, wrote Chairman Haughton in the company's annual report, "the gold of good intention turned into the sand of reality." Because of what he called "Government inflexibility" in enforcing the contract's terms, Lockheed might have to pay a $16,000-per-plane penalty...
Lockheed's problems center around the giant C-5A transport, which overran cost estimates by $1 billion in development. The Air Force has cut back its C-5A order from 115 aircraft to 81, and the final estimates of the loss to Lockheed have yet to come in. Overall, Lockheed is feeling less pinch than most of its competitors. It expects to increase its total work force this year by 2,000, to 100,000, as production begins on its L-1011 airbus. Similarly, General Dynamics plans no cutbacks in its 70,000-man labor force during 1970 -unless...