Word: overwhelmingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...costly investments in seeds, irrigation, fertilizers and insecticides, large landholders may force increasing numbers of small farmers and peasants off the land and into the already overcrowded cities. The prospect, says British Economist Barbara Ward, is of "a tidal wave, a Hurricane Camille of country people that threatens to overwhelm the already crowded, bursting cities." Agrees India's Home Minister Y.B. Chavan: "Unless we do something about the Green Revolution, it will become the red revolution...
...events-the 880 and the two-mile-are crucial to the Crimson's strategy today. If the Harvard distance men are unable to overwhelm the Princetonians, the meet could go down to the final two relays...
...committing suicide is stark tragedy. That another has reached the point where he is able to mourn death sounds a call of hope. Who has never heard an inner voice beckoning him to acts of madness? David Sawyer's film pierces the darkness that results when other voices overwhelm the rational mind...
Professors should not overwhelm their students with work but rather challenge them...
...real problem is much bigger than the U.S. By curbing disease and death, modern medicine has started a surge of human overpopulation that threatens to overwhelm the earth's resources. At the same time, technological man is bewitched by the dangerous illusion that he can build bigger and bigger industrial societies with scant regard for the iron laws of nature. French Social Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss compares today's human condition to that of maggots in a sack of flour: "When the population of these worms increases, even before they meet, before they become conscious of one another, they secrete...