Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bitter at Tallent for "going commercial," while Tallent sees himself more as baby-sitter than a friend for Dick's immature antics. Pipefitter tries to boost his own ego by picking on Oxenberger, who slowly relapses into schizophrenia after he loses his antipsychotic medication and the inter-group hostilities overwhelm him. Unfortunately, none of these problems ever seems compelling enough for the audience to invest sympathy in any one character, resulting in a film that is observed more than it is experienced...
...Lawrence boasts a highly efficient offense that has yet to overwhelm an opponent but manages to score enough to win. The Saints lost their all-time assists leader, Paul DiFrancesco to graduation. However, they have found adequate output from seniors Bob Prier and John Poapst and sophomore Erik Anderson. All three players average at least a point-per-game...
Meantime, Seaboard failed to invest in upgrading its sewage-pretreatment facility. As a result, its waste began to overwhelm the city's municipal treatment plant. The city normally placed its treated sludge on soybean cropland, but by the second summer, city officials were in search of more land. As Sparks recalls, "We had so much sludge accumulation that...we had to go out in the middle of the summer, buy a crop [for $36,000] and plow it under because our storage capacity was exceeded...
...voice on this album sounds worn and weary, as if he's seen it all and seen enough. Everything seems disposed or disposable; his song titles include Cancelled Check, Lazy Flies and Dead Melodies. Yet, calmed by his voice, we lean closer, listen closely. Beck's music does not overwhelm his musings...
...invest in this growth industry? The conservative plays are through big retailers and drug companies. Wal-Mart and Walgreens, for example, sell a lot of natural products. Among drug companies, American Home Products, Warner Lambert and Bayer AG have been aggressive. But the overall sales of these large companies overwhelm those of their natural products, so the impact is minimal. Take Wal-Mart: it sold about $500 million of natural products last year, but that pales next to total sales of $105 billion...