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Word: overruns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides security and fuel costs, Brown cited delays in the construction of the city's new high schools and increases in the cost of bilingual education and special needs programs as reasons for the cost overrun...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Council Delays Extra Funding Pending School Budget Review | 3/4/1980 | See Source »

...notified that the funds had been transferred. The very next day Quezon was put aboard a U.S. submarine and taken to safety. (He died in the U.S. in 1944.) MacArthur himself was ordered to leave Corregidor soon afterward. The garrison,, he left behind fought on until it was overrun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTE: Mystery Money | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...degenerated to the meaningless "I could care less." Greetings are equally vapid: telephone operators now routinely use '80s-babble, chirping, "Have a nice day," the moral equivalent of the smile button. Kramer vs. Kramer is advertised as a film that is "absolutely today." Nouns continue to be overrun by the jargonaut: the New York Times demands stronger sourcing, meetings are preambled, situations are impacted. The New York Post recently managed a dazzling double play with its offering: "Stunt man extraordinaire Hal Needham will helm the film, which will also (hopefully) include Roger Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: 80s-Babble: Untidy Treasure | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

January 10: Vietnam mounts offensive against remaining Khmer Rouge guerillas, overrun Thailand, China re-invades Vietnam. Dalai Lama urges India to sieze opportunity to free Tibet by invading China. Sen. Edward Kennedy releases a statement condemning China and Vietnam, but noting that Pol Pot's government had murdered millions of Cambodians prior to Vietnamese intervention. Opinion polls next day reveal that Kennedy slips a further ten per cent against President Carter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Short Decade Begins | 1/8/1980 | See Source »

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