Word: overwhelm
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Whether it's the stress or the fear or the sense of purpose, the issues people find they have in common overwhelm what once divided them. "I think people realize that we are one country and we have one goal, and that's to live and survive," says Peter Devonish, 42, a Jamaican-born printer in New York City's West Harlem. "People stop putting first politics and color and rich and poor and just realize that the problem that faces me is the problem that faces you. We see the security guards in the World Trade Center--little people...
...commentary on Americans' unspecific fears was right on target [ESSAY, Oct. 22]. Thanks to the FBI's vague warning about imminent attacks, our nation has truly been compromised. We're told by our president to get on with our lives so that the terrorists' scare tactics do not overwhelm and paralyze us, but then we're smothered by a pillow of fear from the very government organization that's supposed to filter out unspecific threats. The media circus surrounding the FBI's pronouncements has placed us squarely in the bull's-eye of our own target of fear. I feel...
...Taliban frontlines to sustained aerial bombardment, with frontline commanders questioning whether the Americans were serious about helping tilt the balance in favor of the Alliance. The sustained bombing of the past two days has changed all that; the question now is whether the Alliance has the capacity to overwhelm a more numerous, better armed and perhaps even more motivated foe and prove itself a capable proxy for a ground war against the Taliban...
...Boer fighters who hated the overweening presence of Queen Victoria's realm. They were scruffy, hairy faced, profoundly religious in their battle against Anglo-Saxon materialism and extremely hard to find and destroy. It took no less than 300,000 men from Britain and the other dominions to overwhelm the Afrikaaner resistance in a three-year campaign. "We have had no end of a lesson," Kipling warned. British military forces were not equipped for guerrilla warfare. Intelligence was lacking. Stock markets swooned. Foreign states expressed regret but privately enjoyed the British discomfiture. The empire was compelled to rethink its strategy...
...about 6.89%, vs. a low of 6.68% in 1998--a level that didn't last long and was the lowest average mortgage rate since the 1960s. If rates sink much lower, virtually everyone with a mortgage will be an instant candidate for refinancing. The volume of new business would overwhelm bankers, who'd no longer have a reason to drop rates aggressively. Already there's evidence that bankers are getting their fill. Since June, the decline in mortgage rates has not kept pace with the decline in the 10-year Treasury-bond yield, their benchmark...