Word: overruning
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...Since then, the story has been the Union Club’s gradual slide down the slope of Boston society. It has long been described as the “Rodney Dangerfield of Clubs.” Today the club is overrun by lawyers. The Union Club occupies the original mansion of Amos Lawrence on No. 7 and 8 Park Street. The upstairs dining rooms each have a magnificent view of the Commons to the west...
...most of history, humanity just struggled to survive in an unforgiving environment. Only in the past century or so did we start to dominate nature and overrun the planet. Rather than defend ourselves against nature, we began to realize, we needed to defend nature against ourselves. Thus was born the environmental movement. These pages recognize men and women who helped give us this awareness--and pointed the way to protecting the only home we have...
...reptile" and the other a "moron," according to The Wall Street Journal. In the same article, Kerasiotes asserted that the Governor was "scared" of him. The fact that Kerasiotes is so indispensable that he can get away with these types of transgressions on top of concealing a massive budget overrun is not reassuring...
...means it is the legitimate government of all of China. Beijing may issue threats and even move troops around, but it can't afford to risk the humiliation of losing a military standoff - and it's far from a foregone conclusion that China's military has the capacity to overrun or even intimidate Taiwan, particularly if the threat of imminent force compels the U.S. to signal support for Taipei. And despite its nationalist pride, Beijing well knows the potentially catastrophic economic consequences of confrontation with the West. Whatever they may wish for, Taiwan's leaders are fully aware...
...first person I saw in the Sundance greeting center was a guy talking on his cell phone, saying, "Yeah, I'm an agent too." Eager to fit in, I bought a cell phone, sunglasses and a tasteful pink pashmina scarf. I had heard Sundance would be overrun with agents, producers and movie stars. If only that were true. The town is in fact overrun by desperate indie moviemakers. I thought indie was just another word for cheap, artsy films that no one sees. It turns out indie means movies made by rich kids who spend their parents' money without...