Word: overruning
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...marks. If I don't want to save up a single penny, what's left is 8,000 marks = 6,150 francs. More I cannot and will not give; and ways and means have to be found to make do with that. If there is a small overrun, the savings could be used. But that should only happen in case of emergency. For I don't know whether these small savings are going to have to cover the children's education, in the event of my early death. If I thought otherwise, I would simply be a heel...
Seen from a distance, today's Nepal is an otherworldly place. Its hills are overrun with young and frightening Maoist guerrillas. Until a few weeks ago, its cities were brimming with baton-swinging riot police in blue fatigues and protesting students with torches in their hands. Average people doing average things seem about as common as yetis?except in the work of Nepali author Samrat Upadhyay. The Royal Ghosts, his new collection of short stories, is full of characters who care for sick parents, fall in love with the wrong people, cheat on their spouses or get drunk...
Dever feels overrun and doesn't mind who knows it. He relates a story about a recent visit by a television crew that arrived in his office and asked whether he was aware that a group of presumably illegal aliens was camped out in a drainage ditch next to the sheriff's headquarters. Sensing a story, the crew wondered if he was embarrassed by the aliens' presence. A plainspoken man, Dever said he was not the least bit embarrassed. Their presence, he said, illustrated quite pointedly just how pervasive the problem...
...rebel National Patriotic Liberation Front, and President Samuel Doe, the harsh ruler of the country's 2.5 million people for the past decade, loathe each other. Says Taylor: "The only good Doe is a dead Doe." In the past eight months Taylor's 10,000-member army has overrun most of the country, leaving only small pieces of Monrovia, the capital, in Doe's control and setting the Gio tribe, which supports Taylor, against one of Liberia's smallest but most powerful tribes, Doe's people, the Krahn...
...Lawrence, a late goal propelled the Crimson to an important tie early in the season. Just before that matchup, Harvard had nearly mounted a thrilling comeback in a 4-3 loss to Clarkson with two goals in the final frame. This week, however, the Crimson faltered and was ultimately overrun by the more energetic and crisp UNH team on its home ice. “I was disappointed in our last 20 minutes, but I like where we’re headed,” Harvard coach Katey Stone. “We hurt ourselves tonight by not controlling some...