Word: overextend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...companies, which want to explore offshore. China already has credit lines totaling $8 billion from the British and French, and will need perhaps as much as a total of $40 billion over the next few years. But Peking is understandably cautious. Says Blumenthal: "They are determined not to overextend themselves...
...performance. According to her son, she feels that steady excellence is essential to promoting greater public interest in the sport. Bill says he feels that this emphasis is in contrast to that of Penny Tweedy, breeder of Secretariat and Riva Ridge, who Gerry feels had a tendency to overextend the horses to get them before the public...
...feels the U.S. was close to a solution to the Angola problem before Congress got involved and, in his opinion, encouraged the Soviets to continue their intervention. Nonetheless, Western officials believe the Kremlin is still divided over the aid program. Some Soviet defense officials argued that it would militarily overextend the U.S.S.R.; some Foreign Ministry officials feared that the Angola intervention was jeopardizing detente. But the critics were overruled by the Communist Party hierarchy, which favored stepping up help to the M.P.L.A., largely to counterbalance Chinese successes in Mozambique and elsewhere in Africa...
...been tripled in the last year alone by the presence of 1,400,000 refugees from the countryside. Instead the insurgents maintained their successful-and relatively inexpensive-campaign of attrition. "The Khmer Rouge are everywhere," reported TIME Correspondent Peter Range. "They do not concentrate their forces heavily, do not overextend themselves, do not shoot for the large objectives until they have taken several smaller ones first...