Word: overwhelmingly
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Thanks to strong vocals and Weinstein's creative choreography, the big musical numbers are the highlights of the show. Unfortunately, the band and chorus occasionally overwhelm the lead singers, drowning out their Iyrics. "Summer Nights" and "Beauty School Drop-Out," two of the show's best songs, are marred by this problem. However, the overall strength of the songs compensates for this weakness...
...Pentagon, it has had a 95% accuracy record in hitting its targets in Iraq. Another challenge to the B-2 is the Tomahawk cruise missile, which costs only $1 million. Tomahawks had a reported 90% success rate in the gulf war. Congressional critics might decide that these factors will overwhelm those favoring...
...escorts stand by while a limited number of journalists conduct their interviews. Pentagon officials insist that the pools are intended to help reporters gain access and to avoid the nightmare of more than 700 journalists all trying to reach the front lines at once. "Having reporters running around would overwhelm the battlefield," says Colonel Bill Mulvey, director of the military's Joint Information Bureau in Dhahran...
Saddam's strategy is obviously enormously risky. Allied air power could in fact cut off his troops in Kuwait or destroy so many of their defensive fortifications that the rest would be pierced relatively easily. The firepower the allies can employ even in a high-tech ground assault might overwhelm Saddam's forces, with fewer allied casualties than he now thinks likely. Like all dictators, Saddam may be hearing only what he wants to hear. Western intelligence people think he may actually believe the absurdly high estimates of allied planes knocked down that Baghdad has been reporting publicly. As ever...
...Black poor today face a whole brand new breed of oppressors," he said, "massive teen pregnancy, the problems in education, violence and homicide among the young. These overwhelm the Black church. They are brand-new problems...