Word: overshot
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...numbers the Corporation will see are likely to represent the University’s perpetual financial crunch, exacerbated this year by a sputtering economy and rising benefit costs, which overshot projections. The Corporation voted in December to increase payout from the endowment for next fiscal year by 4 percent, a meager figure but still larger than previous threats of a 0 or 2 percent increase...
...another section of the intramural fields, freshman Charles Hamilton was explaining to a group of kids how to set up your shot. After two attempts in which he overshot the goal, teammate and classmate Colin Barclay asked the kids if they thought Hamilton could hit the back of next with his next attempt. Betting the kids 10 pushups, Hamilton explained the importance of leaning forward to keep the ball down and then pulled his shot wide. The seated kids broke out in laughter and counted as he fulfilled his part of the bargain...
...provides many reasons to doubt. When the Coast Guard reported that secure ports would cost nearly $1 billion, Bush responded with rhetoric about the importance of the Coast Guard to national security, but he failed to request a single dollar in either his 2003 or his 2004 budgets. Congress overshot the President, appropriating $250 million, but Bush’s allies in Congress have repeatedly killed Democratic efforts to provide more funding...
...Around Kabul over the 72 hours leading to Saturday night's bombing, a 107mm rocket overshot one of the largest ISAF installations in the city and a search located twelve more that had misfired; a U.S. soldier was shot by a sniper; and in Gardez, two hours to the south, a video store was bombed and a rocket fired at U.S. special forces. These rocket attacks have become increasingly common, launched by timers as basic as a punctured water bucket fixed to drain at a measured speed and complete an electrical circuit, or as sophisticated as electrical boards rigged...
...competitors down a bottle or two of Belgium's cherry-flavored beer in celebration? Probably not. Some of the opponents wanted the deal weakened, not killed. "I feel like a golfer who's just overshot the green," said an executive on the "winning" side. Had the deal gone through, GE's opponents would have been able to pick up some of the Honeywell businesses Welch was ready to divest. Now they can't. At least some on the GE side of the case felt that the competitors' appetite for GE's spare parts would trump their fear of a merger...