Word: overtook
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...planes, solid walls that look like fluttering strips of ribbon, blade-edged triangular outcroppings and brassy materials that shimmer like something Cher would wear to the Grammys--what's under way here is a rethinking of space and form as complete as any since the spirals of the Baroque overtook the spare symmetries of the Renaissance. If this is the future, then the right-angled Modernist box is about to be lowered into its grave...
...been a bad year for video-game addicts who resolved to kick the habit. All of a sudden, their drug of choice became more engrossing than ever. Not only was 1999 the watershed year in which sales of games overtook box-office receipts for the first time, but the quality of those games improved exponentially, leading some to believe that the game industry is entering a Golden Age roughly equivalent to Hollywood's in the 1940s...
...response was immediate and enormous. The market for organic enhancement of newly fertilized embryos quickly overtook infertility treatment. Ironically, most of the prospective parents who now crowded the waiting room at the St. Gen "fertility" clinic had no fertility problems...
...Lawrence (23-13-3, 15-4-3, 2nd) is a team that surprised everyone last year, claiming first place for most of the season before regional rival Clarkson overtook it down the stretch. The Saints rode the back of their dominating goaltender Eric Heffler (2.11 GAA, .934 save percentage), the ECAC Player of the Year in his senior season...
...surprising that many of the new deals have an American feel: Europe's latest merger boom is being shaped by armies of pinstriped investment bankers jetting in from Wall Street. In fact, two banks based in New York City, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, overtook their European rivals for the first time in 1998 and became the top two advisers for takeovers in Europe in terms of the value of deals they helped bring about, according to Securities Data/Thomson Financial. "I believe there's going to be a lot more hostile activity," predicts Wilder Fulford, a managing director for mergers...