Word: overlaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...OVERLAP IN WEAPONS
Young Getty believes U.S. trustbusters will consent to the merger, since Skelly and Tidewater operations overlap in very few areas. More important, the U.S. oil business is so big that Tidewater and Skelly account for less than...
Kronenberger is drama editor for Time magazine, Sophie Tucker Professor of Theater Arts at Brandeis, and a visiting professor at Harvard for the spring term. He is teaching two courses: one on modern stage comedy ("It seems to complement Chapman's 'Drama Since Ibsen'; we have very little overlap.") and the other on the "Literature of Worldliness" ("By worldliness I mean something more than just manners--something that also involves the motivation of social life and the social scene."). Together these two courses imply a great deal about the professor and his interests...
...strict ceiling on military spending could disastrously weaken the nation's defenses. But a ceiling that is merely uncomfortable can have beneficial results: it can force military leaders to cut down on overlap, make choices between concepts and weapons. Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, backed up by the President, has tried to hold the 1960 defense budget to a distinctly uncomfortable $41.6 billion, i.e., this year's level plus a 2% inflation factor. And one result of the painful ceiling is that the Pentagon is taking hard-eyed looks at duplication and obsolescence among the U.S.'s twoscore...
Newman has found prepositions especially unruly. There are about 25 of them, and their meanings overlap irrationally. The preposition through has at least 13 meanings. It can mean by use of (to speak through an interpreter) and finished with (through with work). Newman proposes to replace unruly prepositions with new Ruly terms that have single meanings. Howby, for instance, will mean mode of proximate cause. Sometimes it will replace by (take by force), or with (to kill with kindness), or through (to cure through surgery). But it will always have the same basic meaning, so that even the most literal...