Word: overruning
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...made Cuba rich. TIME Correspondent George Taber who was recently in Havana, reports that the city is a nostalgia buffs paradise: DeSoto, Packard and Studebaker cars roam the streets, kept running by tinkering mechanics. Gardens of homes in the once fashionable sections of Miramar and Vedado are overrun with weeds or chickens, and the housing shortage is so severe that Cubans often wait three or four years for an apartment Almost everything is rationed, including sugar and cigars. In fact, though Castro once dreamed of a diversified economy, Cuba has become even more of a one-crop country...
Still, employees do vent their grievances. At the Kennedy School of Government last month, an informal committee of faculty and staff members persuaded the dean to create the post of personnel officer. Some staff members had been complaining that the open working spaces were often too noisy or overrun with visitors, and that they had trouble working when students and guests lounged on their desks to hold conversations. Others had said the unavailability of supplies was exasperating...
...year for "representational" entertainment, depending on their individual ranks, in addition to their salaries of $122,000 to $145,000, they exceeded their allowances by 24%, according to the audit. Stung by the charge, Jenkins issued a denial, arguing that the auditors were wrong in calling the 24% an "overrun." The total amount spent, $376,000, he said, was still less than the $381,300 he claimed the European Parliament had allocated for entertainment by the commissioners. But Jenkins promised to publish quickly the commission's response to the audit as well as "a review of all existing practices...
...well be on our way to a society overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated." -Chief Justice Warren E. Burger
...under the influence of numerous cultures: Indian, Mongolian, Parthian (a Persian people), nomadic (from the Eurasian steppes) and even Roman. All collided with the Hellenistic Greek domination of Alexander the Great, who conquered Bactria in 331 B.C., and his Seleucid successors. Two centuries later, the Greco-Bactrian kingdom was overrun by nomadic groups, among them the Parthians, Saka from the steppes and five Central Asiatic tribes called the Yiieh-Chih...