Word: overstayers
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Despite its initial charms, this romper room behavior quickly loses its appeal. Even Mr. Rogers knows that there's only so much time one can spend in Make-Believe-Land. Unfortunately, the characters in Lanford Wilson's play overstay their visit...
...between 3.5 million and 6 million in 1978. A National Academy of Sciences study issued last week denounced the INS statistics as "woefully inadequate" and put the total of illegals at no more than 2 million to 4 million. These include anyone from German students who deliberately overstay their visas to Haitian boat people who scramble ashore in South Florida, but roughly 60% of the illegals are Hispanics, and about two-thirds of these are Mexicans driven by poverty and unemployment across the highly porous 2,000-mile southern frontier...
...movies at the Brattle Theater on Brattle St. on the way to the Loeb Theatre often overstay their welcome. "Diva," for example, stayed for more than three months but the films shown are definitely top-shelf foreign delights...
While accepting the rationale for Soviet, Cuban and East German intervention in Ethiopia and Angola, Obasanjo argued that East-bloc aid to black Africa must have limits. "The Soviets should not overstay their welcome," he warned. "Africa is not about to throw off one colonial yoke for another. The Soviets should therefore see it to be in their interest not to seek to perpetually maintain their presence even after the purpose for which they were invited has been achieved. This way they run the risk of being dubbed a new imperial power, as indeed they already are being called even...
...Canadian football, and George played briefly with the Minnesota Vikings. Chuck, who changed the spelling of his last name from Munsey because "Muncie goes back to my grandfather and great-grandfather," wants to be drafted by a California team. But wherever he ends up, Muncie does not plan to overstay his welcome. He is thinking of attending law school during the off-seasons, because of his concern about white-collar crime. For the next few years, though, N.F.L. defenses will have their hands full trying to collar Chuck Muncie...