Word: overwhelming
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...king of Wall Street after Travelers sealed a $9 billion deal to acquire Salomon Bros., one of the world's largest bond-trading houses. Says Weill, 64, of his odyssey: 'I never thought it could be anything approaching this.' ... Weill stands apart from an industry where oversize egos often overwhelm logic. His latest deal caps years of collecting cast-off companies at fire-sale prices and then trimming costs by paying close attention to detail ... 'I have never in my life said anything was the culmination of a dream,' Weill observes, 'because if you stop dreaming, I can't imagine...
...network bandwidth is not managed, filesharing traffic can overwhelm certain students’ subnet,s” he said...
...Iraqi people have been liberated, but lawlessness and radical Shiite clerics threaten to overwhelm progress toward the development of a stable government...
...girls stand up. "An engineer?" "A doctor?" Each time, most of the girls happily stand up. "And who wants to be President of Afghanistan?" This time, only Noqreh stands. President? she thinks. Why not? For a start, she'll run for president of her class. But family problems soon overwhelm her ambitions. There's no water, and no milk for her sister's newborn child. And no place to stay. People find shelter in the hull of an abandoned plane or in the ruins of a palace. After occupation by the Soviets, the Taliban and the U.S., Afghanistan is rich...
...trust them." He learned about the guard when he was challenged for a password while returning to his own tent, late in the evening. One officer jokingly asked Col. Hodges how he got past the guard without a password and received the reply, "I tried to overwhelm him with the sheer force of my personality. When that failed, he eventually saw the logic of letting me into my tent so he could guard me properly...