Word: overreaching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lasky's book has any value, it is in raising a number of serious and worthwhile questions: To what extent did past Presidents overreach their authority? Were their violations in any way comparable to the excesses of Nixon? Did much of the U.S. press judge Nixon by a tougher standard than it had applied to his predecessors...
Felker's personal grandeur may match his managerial overreach. Since last spring he has asked for: 1) a 25% increase in his 1975 salary of $120,461. 2) the wherewithal to buy a house in Long Island's ducal Hamptons, and 3) company purchase of his super-duplex. His directors, in New York parlance, cut him off at the bottom line...
...Victorians, as Chesterton observed, were "lame giants; the strongest of them walked on one leg a little shorter than the other." It was an epoch of elegance and kitsch, dignity and pornography, liberal cant and imperial overreach. It is this instability that enlivens-and afflicts-Brian Moore's novel, The Great Victorian Collection...
Unfortunately, instead of addressing such points, the authors depart on flights of exaggeration that turn Global Reach into an overreach. Breathlessly capitalizing nouns, they assert that multinationals are run by World Managers who aim to create a Global Shopping Center or One Great Market. That Global
...despite this overreach, a rather messy structure, and great length...