Word: overwhelm
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...graduated from Harvard College in 2003, I have been working as a community organizer for a neighborhood group in Manhattan that is adamantly opposed to the stadium. West Side residents, all of our local elected officials, and more than 60 percent of New Yorkers oppose the stadium, which would overwhelm our community and require an initial taxpayer subsidy of more than $1 billion...
...better to overwhelm? Walking out of “Palindromes,” it is hard to feel anything but numb. Solondz’s confrontational tactics produce a viewing experience unlike any other modern American director and it is not for everyone, but provocation is effective. Seeing the group of sickly and discarded children sing Christian pop as The Sunshine Singers is an experience that’s hard to forget. The central device, even when it fails, fails in interesting ways that are worth seeing...
Experts think that the Federal Government will inevitably have to take a more active role. As the AIDS toll mounts, the sheer cost of caring for patients, ranging from $50,000 to $150,000 each, will overwhelm local resources. By this time next year there will be twice as many cases of AIDS as there are now, says Lange of New York City's St. Luke's-Roosevelt, and "I can already see the whole hospital system coming apart at the edges." Some doctors believe that special medical centers similar to cancer centers may have to be established to care...
...afraid of jealousy, you will be inhibited about loving." Psychoanalyst Willard Gaylin told Friday that living with chronic jealousy is like "walking through minefields." She knows the feeling well. "I'm always going to be a jealous person," she says, "but it's not going to overwhelm me. Now I know where the mines are." --By John...
When the Latin American debt crisis first struck in August 1982, it seemed like a virulent fever that might quickly overwhelm the world financial system. Instead, it turned out to be more like a chronic ailment that flares up or recedes by turn but is always maddeningly present. When representatives of both creditor and debtor nations came together in Washington last week for meetings of the policymaking committees of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the persistent debt dilemma was at the top of the agenda. Fears are rising once again about the financial condition of Brazil...