Word: overrun
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...core of the new approach--as outlined by Dean Dunlop in an October 19 Faculty meeting--consists of special monitoring of departments which substantially overrun their budgeted expenses...
...dead set against the merger and have engaged in some vigorous lobbying themselves. "If the merger goes through," warns Continental Air Lines President Robert Six, "the muscle of this giant would ruin the smaller carriers, and they will desperately seek a merger partner and get out before they are overrun and overcome...
...promisingly seedy setting for John Osborne's latest play, which opened last week to culminate the London summer season. The locale and title are West of Suez-a former British outpost in the Caribbean, now underrun by surly native administrators and overrun by American tourists. Four English sisters, their spouses and assorted hangers-on have gathered at a villa for a holiday with the sisters' father, an aging, eminent writer (Ralph Richardson). The whole crowd is psychologically on the lam, morally lying low, parceling out a diminishing stock of options while they keep a furtive lookout for some...
...Johnson, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Wheeler presented a more pessimistic assessment of the effects of the 1968 Tet offensive than officials in Washington and Saigon had made available to the public. While echoing official statements that the Viet Cong forces were defeated in their attempt to overrun South Viet Nam, Wheeler admitted: "In short, it was a very near thing. To a large extent, the V.C. now controls the countryside. His determination appears to be unshaken. His recovery is likely to be rapid; his supplies are adequate...
...build. By the Pentagon's estimate, the real costs of producing each of the remaining planes in the order would be anywhere from $1 million to $3 million more than the contract price-a staggering total of $684 million to more than $2 billion. The reasons for the overrun, says Grumman President Llewellyn J. Evans, are the high rate of inflation since the original agreement was drawn up and a reduction in the company's other defense business, which has raised overhead costs for remaining projects. As it is, Evans figures that Grumman will make little...