Word: overtaxes
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Critics also note that malls are voracious consumers of electricity and-because they can usually be reached only by automobile-of gasoline. They gobble up valuable farm land, pollute the environment, overtax local services, create great traffic snarls, and all too often are vast asphalt eyesores. Worse still, by encouraging the exodus of both shopkeepers and shoppers to the suburbs, they only hasten the decay of downtown areas...
...French have agreed in principle to a plan that would keep Britain's eventual dues in line with its share of the Common Market's G.N.P.-about 20%. More importantly, the plan would provide extra time for "correctives" if Britain's budget payments to the EEC overtax the Exchequer. The British can probably live with that arrangement...
...endorsed this effort, though it could overtax Saigon's own war effort if carried on too long; U.S. sources note that Hanoi has been sending as many as 3,000 trucks a week down the Ho Chi Minh Trail despite the monsoons, possibly for a major attack somewhere in the northern half of South Viet Nam. For its part, Washington has provided Cambodia with a fairly modest military-aid program of $7,900,000; it will try to increase that to perhaps $25 million over the next six months by diverting unused funds from other aid programs...
...rival drivers, Petty is known as a "charger," who likes to blast ahead, full-bore, from the start of a race, hoping opponents will overtax their engines trying to catch him. He is also an innovator; he invented the dangerous art of "drafting"-keeping his car practically on top of an opponent's rear bumper, using the partial vacuum created by the other car as a tow, thus conserving his own engine and fuel. Unlike many drivers, who make a fetish of braking and shifting at precisely the same points each time around a track. Petty varies his routine...
...nothing more strenuous all spring than play a round of golf-and it was a good bet that neither would be ready to pitch nine innings before the season was two weeks old. "Our main concern," said Dodger Manager Walter Alston, "is to make sure they don't overtax their arms and injure them." Naturally, at those prices...