Word: overwhelms
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...withstand attack from the others. This would return us to the dark ages of the Cold War when Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower used or considered using nuclear weapons to decimate portions of the world population. In other words, threats by irrational dictators or other third parties could easily overwhelm a treaty between the U.S. and the USSR, returning the two nations to the frightening doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction...
...strain on BankAmerica and banks in the Southwest, experts see no significant threat of failures that would overwhelm the FDIC. The agency's bailout fund, now more than $18 billion, has grown every year recently despite a surge in bank failures. Profits in the overall banking industry are growing at an estimated 10% or better annually, and last week four of the major New York City institutions reported robust quarterly earnings. Along with the painful contraction taking place in the steel industry, the regional banking woes are the natural result of the ebb and flow of economic tides. While some...
...wood carving of The Archangel Raphael and the Young Tobias, 1516, is a tour de ! force of this kind. Though every crinkle of the figures' drapery looks natural, the planes of wood are whittled down to a fierce thinness, a buckling, bladelike sweep that from some angles seems to overwhelm the figure it surrounds and turn into a Nostradamus-like prophecy of 20th century constructed sculpture. These planes, screwing around the axes of arm and body, are given a momentum and self-sufficiency unique in the history of wood carving. Stoss's work, which can rarely be seen in quantity...
Still, the Berkeley team was not satisfied with its hit-and-miss method of creating frost-inhibiting bacteria, and set about producing them by gene- splicing techniques. For meaningful experiments, enough of the bacteria had to be sprayed on test plants to overwhelm the natural variety. But the release into the environment of any genetically engineered microbes in those days required the nod of the National Institutes of Health recombinant-DNA committee,* which in 1983 approved the Berkeley scientists' proposal to conduct their test at a tiny potato patch near the city of Tulelake in Northern California...
...border with Kuwait. Built in typically opulent Saudi style, the complex can hold 70,000 troops. But its ability to withstand attack is questionable at best. Says one military analyst: "If the Iranians were not distracted by Iraq, the odds would be heavily in Iran's favor to overwhelm the Gulf Cooperation Council...