Word: overtaxes
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...Cheney's John Henry routine also highlights his boss's more easygoing work ethic, reinforcing a stereotype that our new President doesn't like to overtax himself. Bush routinely takes an hour or more each day for exercise, is out of the office by 6, keeps a light schedule on the road and starts the weekend early, on Friday afternoons. Compared with Cheney, some critics say, he looks like a part-timer...
...world's rivers into a series of interconnected lakes. Such a water system, like nothing seen since the end of the last ice age, has dire consequences for thousands of species adapted to free-flowing water. Human alteration of the water cycle also extends underground as farms and cities overtax aquifers, sometimes irretrievably damaging these reservoirs of groundwater as the land subsides and salt water intrudes...
...cable-TV customers--a full two-thirds of American households--may get a sinking feeling of another sort if they try to tune in. Cable companies are refusing, for now, to carry broadcasters' HDTV signals, saying information-rich HDTV channels overtax their systems and will force some existing cable channels off the dial. Viewers who want decent reception, therefore, will have to buy clunky, old-fashioned TV antennas if they plan to pull in digital broadcasts. Both sides hope to resolve the matter, but for the foreseeable future, "there will be a lot of finger pointing going on," says Torie...
...much bed rest can you get when you've got 27 hours of reading per day to do and 36 hours of partying to do every night?" asks David A. Pentlow '95. "I have no idea how we're supposed to not overtax ourselves...
...have to be paid back by the thrifts, which are already paying about $3.5 billion a year to replenish the deposit guarantee fund. Says a spokesman for the U.S. League of Savings Institutions, a powerful industry lobbying group: "All we're asking for is a plan that doesn't overtax the industry...