Word: overrunning
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...start saying something now, you'll be overrun," he said, explaining why the group is circulating the petition...
...Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey, Florida or California. Those who stay in Brooklyn move southward towards the Atlantic Ocean, yielding more and more of the borough's north and center to poorer blacks. As a few black families move onto a block, the remaining whites fear they will be 'overrun' and the value of their property will decline. Seeing the downhill slide of the neighborhood in the first black face that moves in, they are apt to sell their houses for less than they are worth and complete the self-fulfilling prophecy of declining property values. Others move because they...
...conversation with an agent of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Cyprus (who said he was trying to persuade the terrorists to surrender), one of the skyjackers called himself Harda Mahmoud. He claimed to be a survivor of the Tal Zaa-tar Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, which had been overrun by Christian forces during the Lebanese civil war. The other male terrorist identified himself as Walter Mohammed. The skyjackers may be members of Min Beirut, a previously unknown Beirut-based guerrilla group that last week claimed responsibility for the skyjacking. Proclaiming Min Beirut's solidarity with the Red Army...
...Congressmen found Clarke's ruminations on space travel to be far-fetched but not unbelievable. In the discussion that followed, Clarke fielded questions about the potential cost overrun on space colonization and traded reminiscences of the cartoon strip Buck Rogers with Rep. Thomas N. Downing (D-Va.). The essay provides an amusing, edifying and somewhat poignant look at how space policy...
...time we realize the small band cannot turn back, the ending is inevitable. The film becomes a study in despair, the voyage an absurd gesture, until at last there is only Aguirre, ranting about his future greatness to an audience of dead men as his drifting raft is overrun by small monkeys...