Word: overwhelms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overpopulation. More than 16 million people are squeezed into the New York City-northern New Jersey corridor, and almost all of them use New York Harbor, Long Island Sound and the Hudson River as convenient dumping grounds. New York City's nearly 8,000,000 inhabitants continue to overwhelm existing facilities; the uncontrolled runoff of sewage has covered 40% of the harbor bottom with sludge. Complicating matters is the fact that there may be as much undiscovered oil lying off Long Island, where 42 oil companies are now involved in exploration, as there is on Alaska's North...
...dealing with Twain's Huckleberry Finn in the story theatre manner is a much more ambitious project. It's rather like going at a glacier with a pick axe. Not that Twain's story is unmanageable. It's simply that its familiar episodes continually threaten to overwhelm the staging techniques that Bergreen uses to bring the ungraceful narrative to life. Few of his scenes take on an independence of their own and, as a consequence, the audience is left viewing something that looks more like conventional drama than improvisation (and more like high school pageantry than anything else) without experiencing...
...Senate voted nay, the plane was temporarily saved by a House-Senate compromise extending funds through March of this year. With that mandate about to expire, the battle has been joined once more. This time the SST's supporters have mounted a highly professional counterattack that threatens to overwhelm the aircraft's critics...
...popping ears. Acoustics are often eccentric. A hard-hit volley, for example, sometimes will sound like a battery of French 75s. Heating−or cooling−;the bubbles is difficult. The sun has a way of turning the structures into hothouses, while the cold winds of winter can overwhelm heating systems...
Without their bikes, the students also lacked confidence socially and academically. Passive, apathetic and inactive, the afflicted students spent their non-cycling hours sleeping, talking aimlessly, drinking beer, or escaping reality in TV and drugs. When anxiety threatened to overwhelm them-often in the middle of the night-they took to their cycles for the illusion of "doing something and getting somewhere...