Word: overtaken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even more devastating to the network's pride, if not its bottom line, is the ( sinking status of the CBS Evening News, which has been overtaken in popularity for the past two months by ABC's World News Tonight. Some network executives blame the decline on weak lead-in programming on local CBS stations around the country. Others cite ABC's widely praised coverage of the San Francisco earthquake, a bonus of its presence at the World Series...
...grabbing the territory outright. But the Japanese government squashed any further moves and hushed up the army's involvement in the killing. In 1931, Tokyo again tried to stop the army. But renegade officers arranged for a geisha to distract and delay the envoy sent by the central government. Overtaken by events and well aware that the Manchurian offensive had won acclaim for the militarist factions in Tokyo, the Japanese government caved in to the army's visions of manifest destiny -- and to its foolhardy insistence on heeding the lessons of World War I at any cost...
...only have such policies represented a substantial threat to academic freedom, they have also hindered national security. Broad controls on scientific and technological information have proven extremely damaging to the American economy as well. Japan has overtaken us in the race to develop superconductors partly because of the Reagan Administration's counter-productive attempts to restrict the free exchange of technical information with foreign scientists, a policy which has merely made research more difficult in this crucial field. A 1987 report by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that the current level of export controls cost the economy...
...Mississippi Burning opens, three civil rights workers ride through Jessup (Neshoba) County, avid to get out of town. Their station wagon is overtaken by some good ole boys in a pickup truck. Blam! Blam! Blam! Officially, the three are "missing." FBI agents Ward (Dafoe) and Anderson (Hackman) know otherwise. They might be from two different colleges -- say, Harvard and Hard Knocks. But they are both feds in a bad town, and they know what smells. The sheriff, for one. "You down here to help us solve our nigger problem?" he asks agreeably. No. They are there to wash some soiled...
...bridged? At times Terkel is overtaken by despair: "What had presumably been our God-anointed patch of green appears to be, for millions of us, a frozen tundra." Yet the author cannot maintain a long face. After repeatedly exposing the country's down side, he expresses his own second thoughts on the American Dream. He decides to roll the dice with America's eternal resource: the altruistic young. They "may reflect something . . . unfashionable for the moment and thus hidden away, something 'fearful': compassion. Or something even more to abjure: hope...