Word: overrun
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...Denmark has achieved its success has made it a darling of European social democrats and American liberals, and the country has been overrun lately with visiting journalists, academics and politicians looking for insights. One of the things a visitor discovers, though, is that Denmark's size and homogeneity--5.4 million people, of whom all but 478,000 are of Danish ancestry--are crucial to how the economy works. "We've been one small nation for 1,000 years," says Hans Skov Christensen, who as director general of the Confederation of Danish Industries negotiates the nationwide bargaining agreements between management...
TIME You canceled a TV show to mark the 100-day milestone because of a $65 million budget overrun. What happened...
...League and seventh in the standings. Princeton sits atop the league with a perfect 11-0 conference record, and Penn is close behind, in second place at 9-2.Both matches were characterized by stretches of competitive play by Harvard, but in both cases, the Crimson was eventually overrun by its opponents.PRINCETON 3, HARVARD 1Entering Saturday’s match against Harvard, the Tigers had not lost a home match in Dillon Gym since 2005, and this weekend was no different. Top-ranked Princeton out-hit and out-blocked the Crimson en route to a convincing victory.Poor hitting cost the Crimson...
...further urge the Representative to bring those same big guns to bear on our own campus. It is no secret that Harvard is overrun with communists, hippies, sexual deviants, and Jeffersonian liberals; until the University ceases to tolerate their existence, Harvard shouldn’t receive a red cent from American taxpayers...
...Wednesday, hundreds, if not thousands, of ordinary Calcuttans flocked around the Governor's convoy as it approached the recently refurbished house where Gandhi had starved and saved Calcutta in 1947. They filled its courtyard and crammed the gully lanes winding along its sides that had once been overrun by those angry mobs. Far from the dignified solemnity of the old Viceroy's Palace, dozens chattered and applauded when the Governor laid flower petals at an altar to Gandhi. Crowds of enthusiastic well-wishers turned his polite withdrawal into a prolonged retreat...