Word: overreaching
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...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...
Everything about the moment invited Bill Clinton to overreach. In the great vaulted nave of the Washington National Cathedral, television lights chased away the shadows and 4,700 people leaned forward in their pews as the President began his eulogy for Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. Seven days had passed since the plane crash in Croatia that killed Brown and 34 others, days filled with the high emotionalism of flag-draped coffins and sobbing families, and during that time, Clinton stretched his verbal gifts to the limit. At Dover Air Force Base when the dead came home, he gave the speech...
...dafter masterpieces of Western art, rich in overreach, Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen is an obvious target for takeoffs of all sorts. The latest is Das Barbecu, which arrived last week off-Broadway after having been developed in several regional theater productions. Concentrating on the last opera, Gotterdammerung, the show is set in oil-rich Texas. Not a bad idea: like Valhalla, Texas was built by the iron whim of wealthy men. Jim Luigs, who wrote the book and lyrics, sees the gods as feuding, singing cowboys. Five exceedingly busy people manage to rush through 30 parts...