Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nothing has gone wrong so far in Carter's China overtures, but being a trusting man, the President does tend to let hope overwhelm fact now and then. Had he seen Peking, Carter might now be a little more restrained, better able to be sure about how far China has to go, how difficult that journey...
...pseudointellectual shell game. Quin tet is designed to stimulate superficial cocktail party chatter rather than to provoke an audience's hearts or minds. Altman has toyed with this method once before, in the disastrous denouement of the otherwise vivid 3 Women, but he has never let such pedantry overwhelm an entire movie. The results seem not only silly but insincere. For all the soppy lip service Altman pays to life, his film never attempts to arise from the slumber of the dead...
...which directly increases the cost of everything consumers buy, especially for a home which is paid for over many years, will inflate prices while constricting demand for goods and labor. Though the latter may tend to depress prices, the former, given the exorbitant interest rates, will in all probability overwhelm the deflationary advantages. And in the case of high interest rates, it is once again the less wealthy who are priced out of the market, or to put it in more human terms, kept from owning homes and buying cars...
...problems are two other factors. One is that, in the words of Audrey Freedman, senior research associate of the nonprofit Conference Board, "the coming year opens a three-year bargaining cycle dominated by fear-on the part of all employees, union and nonunion alike-that inflation will overwhelm wage increases." Thus union members think that they ought to get the biggest raises possible to protect themselves against an inexorable rise in prices. The Administration has sought to counter that fear by ballyhooing a proposal to Congress to grant income-tax rebates to workers whose wages rise slower than prices...
...resignation, with every form of media jumping on each set of gruesome revelations and/or body counts, screaming them out to a public drooling for more, repulsed and fascinated at the same time. Indeed, the publicity surrounding the event would obscure anything less ghoulish, but in this case, nothing can overwhelm the awesome image of nearly 1000 men, women and children (perhaps) choosing to die together...