Word: overwhelm
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...small size make it virtually untrackable and unstoppable. On enemy radar screens, the cruise is almost impossible to spot, and Mach2 fighters and surface-to-air missiles are not effective that close to the ground. The strategic theory: one cruise missile might be shot down but hundreds would overwhelm even the best and most sophisticated air defenses...
...Hanover, Mass.: "The people we see would ordinarily be able to cope, but with inflation, they can't cope now. It is just too much." Adds Cleveland Psychotherapist Jack Wiggins: "We're seeing a cumulative effect. When financial problems are added to internal problems, they tend to overwhelm people." St. Louis Psychologist Norman Matulef reports that patients are now more pessimistic, worried about their own competence and obsessed with money. "Inflation seems to connect more directly with personal dynamics," he says. "It's bad enough for those in the 'normal neurotic' range. For those with...
...ride is occasionally brilliant. Cast perfectly as Edmund, Brain McCue makes a consummate villian, treacherous and slimy. He plots with devilish wit, alternately the angry young bastard and the charming rogue, whose schemes overwhelm him. McCue is hilarious when he sulks in the front seat of the Lincoln or when he fakes a wound by splattering ketchup...
...working. Backed by Big Business, Connally's campaign, the richest ($4.3 million) of an candidate's, seemed to be gaining strength everyday. It appeared only a matter of time before the tough-talking Texan would be unstoppable. There would be no grass roots for this man: he would overwhelm an entire nation...
Because of rising inflation and high fixed costs, some methods of treatment are "unavoidably a luxury," Sammons said. "We must never allow the socio-economics of health care delivery to overwhelm the quality of the health care itself," he added...