Word: overran
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Arkansas State University budgeted $821,000 for athletics last year but spent $225,000 more than that. Tulane University allocated $2.6 million to its athletics program and overran that by $200,000. The University of Minnesota, with a $3.9 million athletics budget, is now saddled with a cumulative deficit of $450,000 and a possibility of having to use tuition income to pay the sporting bills. On many other campuses too, university presidents who once remained at a distance from athletics issues are struggling to contain repeated financial losses from sports...
Apparently unperturbed, the Japanese prepared last week to return the Foxbat to the Russians. The angry Soviets will send a freighter to take delivery of their aircraft at the port of Hitachi. The Japanese coolly demanded that the Russians compensate them for facilities damaged when Belenko overran the runway on Hokkaido and for the expense of dismantling, crating and transporting the plane from Hyakuri airbase, 90 miles north of Tokyo, to Hitachi...
Then, suddenly appearing over Hakodate, Belenko circled twice and touched down, two drag chutes popping from the MIG's tail for braking. Because of his tire blowout, Belenko was apparently unable to use the wheel brakes, and the MIG overran the runway, knocking down two short navigational antennas before coming to a stop...
...historical stage center during this period was held by the Christian Byzantine Empire and the followers of Mohammed, who burst out of the Arabian peninsula after the prophet's death in 632, overran Persia and eventually extended their empire from northern Spain to the frontiers of China. The pagan Khazars successfully resisted Christian and Moslem arms. The power of the two monotheisms seems to have driven the Khazars to seek a god of their own. The problem was, which...
Without the fine play of the defense, Field said the score could have been "unbelievable." The Princeton team tied Penn, which overran the laxwomen earlier in the season...