Word: overreaching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Empires historically have crumbled when they overreach, and superterrorist Osama bin Laden?s adventures in China may yet prove to be his undoing. The survival prospects for the international financier-revolutionary dimmed last week following the coup in Pakistan and a U.N. Security Council resolution threatening sanctions against his hosts ?- Afghanistan?s Taliban movement ?- if they fail to extradite Bin Laden for trial in the U.S. Beijing and Moscow were more than happy to support Washington in passing the Bin Laden resolution, because the fugitive Saudi is alleged to have actively supported Islamic separatists in Chechnya and in western China...
...Budget. Don't overreach, especially if a big raise isn't in the cards. This leads to stress and seriously erodes quality of life. The Clintons may have erred. With debts of $5.5 million and assets of just $1.5 million, they and their bankers are clearly counting on lucrative book contracts and other ventures after the President's term expires...
...other way. So at least some of the talk around Little Rock against Starr sounds like sour grapes from a hometown nexus of business, law and government that likes to keep its dealings, including the dubious ones, within the family. Yet there are still some valid questions about prosecutorial overreach...
JOSEPH STALIN 1942 Beginning the end of Hitler's imperial overreach...
...Morris and a number of other tobacco companies were in court to block new FDA rules, scheduled to go take effect on February 28, that would severely limit cigarette advertising aimed at teenagers. Terming the FDA restrictions a violation of the First Amendment and a prime case of federal overreach, lawyers want Judge William Osteen, a onetime tobacco industry lobbyist, to rule against the FDA without a trial. Tobacco representatives argue that the next step is a total ban on cigarette sales. If enacted, the rule would certainly put a crimp in an industry where 90 percent of new smokers...