Word: overrun
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...three, who said she is looking for a more “creative approach” that would utilize more one-on-one student learning and non-traditional teaching methods. “Teachers are willing to learn, change, grow, but I just feel they’re getting overrun and overworked by the central administration,” she added, calling for more teacher input and funding. But Lawrence J. Adkins, who ran for the Cambridge City Council in 2005, said that teacher input was hard to come by with Fowler-Finn—who has been described...
Development of the Air Force's unmanned aircraft system had a whopping 219% overrun after three years...
...Winston Churchill and, most notably, the Iran hostage crisis. He started as an editorial assistant for CBS News at the 1960 Democratic Convention, when J.F.K. became the presidential nominee. Later, while working for ABC News, he was the first journalist reporting from Tehran after the U.S. embassy was overrun and 52 Americans were taken hostage in 1979. Nightly broadcasts featuring his reporting on the two-year crisis later became the show Nightline...
...September 2012, three years after the onset of a virus with catastrophic consequences. Weeds have sprouted and flourished in Times Square. Tattered billboards for Broadway shows mock the desolation of the place, which is now ugly, cratered and overrun by wildlife - kind of what it was like in the 1970s. Except that now Times Square is empty of all human life except for Robert Neville (Smith), who patrols the streets with his rifle and his faithful dog Samantha. He spots a deer and is ready to gun it down, when a lioness leaps on her prey and begins devouring...
CONTEXT Much like an oil spill, rat spills can wreak havoc on delicate ecosystems and are a major problem for many far-flung islands. One of Alaska's western Aleutians was even named Rat Island after it was overrun by the critters following a shipwreck in the 1780s...