Word: overwhelm
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...their complete transformation. “Feed the Animals” is more hyperactive than Girl Talk’s previous album “Night Ripper,” with songs darting from genre to genre and rarely lingering long on any one loop. Though this hyperactivity may overwhelm at points, Girl Talk’s redistribution of guilty pleasures, classic rock favorites, and club standards can also be exhilarating during crucial moments like the end to “Set it Off,” when he races from Mary J. Blige?...
...19th-century technology to run 21st-century applications. In real-time, utilities rarely know how much electricity any given customer is using, or when. Even though electric cars use relatively little power - the average car recharging draws about as much juice as a widescreen TV - they could still potentially overwhelm the electrical system. If plug-ins suddenly became popular, before the grid had a chance to get smarter, it could lead to a real power predicament. "You can imagine what would happen if five drivers on the block got home at 5 p.m. and all decided to recharge their cars...
...cruise-missile attack would require an extremely costly air- defense system. Even then, an enemy could no doubt find ways to transport a devastating nuclear bomb to the U.S. While acknowledging the risk of an intensified offense-defense spiral, Perle speculated that the Soviets might not even try to overwhelm a partly effective shield against ballistic missiles. ''It just may be,'' he said, ''that the development of a defense would discourage the Soviets from making the very sizable investments necessary to overcome that defense.'' This was a curiously optimistic view from a hard-liner who in the past has always...
...commensurate response. Maybe we lack the ability to plan so far in ahead. In the U.S., the talk today is of gas prices, not global warming, and the first serious attempt at a federal carbon cap recently went fell in an embarrassing defeat in the Senate. Present fears overwhelm us, something Blair should know well - his Gleneagles G8 summit in 2005 was meant to focus on development and climate change, but it was instead dominated by the London bombings, which had occurred a few days earlier...
...some degree, Lomborg is right. It would be a mistake to let fears over warming in the future overwhelm the endless list of ills today, and at times it does seem as if environmentalists care more about climate in the abstract than real human suffering. But not every threat can be broken down in terms of dollars and cents. Climate change is a unique challenge because if the dire predictions turn out to be right, our planet - and our civilization - might no longer be recognizable. We remain frustratingly incapable of nailing down how much warming we'll experience over...