Word: overrunning
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...stock footage and write songs that include samples of other songs, for example—is in grave peril. And if you were to ask Mr. Glickman, he would surely explain that the movie industry and all the wonderful creative engines behind it are on the verge of being overrun by pirates who are robbing honest workers of the money they need to feed their families. If no one will pay for movies because they can get them for free online, who will make them...
...football fans, it might also be a real galvanizing tool to reinstate the popularity of the nation’s original football teams. There is a void in the popular consciousness and media exposure of Ivy League sports, especially, as Corbett says, when “ESPN has been overrun by dollars.” Harvard’s own Ryan Fitzpatrick confessed to the authors on page 118 that he “didn’t even know they played football at Ivy League schools until I started getting letters...
...Afar, a city 30 miles west of Mosul populated almost entirely by Iraqi Turkoman, was overrun by terrorist groups this summer. In early September, the U.S. Army laid siege to the town and the ensuing two-week battle was so fierce that the Turkish government complained that Americans were killing innocent Turkoman civilians. Many Mosul residents worry that Tal Afar was a dry run for their city...
Jail is one thing. A country-wide naming meltdown is another. And that’s exactly what will happen in a few years, when all of Dartboard’s hyphenated contemporaries decide to settle down to enjoy marital bliss. In just ten years, kindergartens may be overrun with little Joey Hertzl-Bunzl-Hepler-Smiths and Mary Eagle-Lee-Bobbitt-Okionobes. There will be no more naptime, because roll call will take the entire...
...years ago, hundreds wept as the cheap, folksy Rockbottom bar shut its doors. Around the same time, the departure of Pacific Sunwear left yet another opening for something new and fresh; what we got instead was an utterly useless and offensively ostentatious Omega watch store. Gentrification has overrun countless college bars and eateries, forcing them increasingly out of our reach. The Grolier Poetry Book Shop—the oldest of its kind in the United States—was recently slated to close, though it seems to have retreated from the brink...