Word: overflow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although only 150 students were expected, Robert Biddle, program director, said that they will probably be able to handle the overflow although there are still a dozen on the waiting list. He added that there has been an "enormous amount of string pulling" from dignitaries and professors...
...somber yet joyously unified celebration of women's lives, poets Aurde Lorde and Adrienne Rich shared their works to an overflow crowed at Sanders Theater Saturday night...
...having trouble getting out. In 1976 giant mechanical moles began work on the largest public works project in the nation: 131 miles of tunnel shafts, reservoirs and pumping stations. The network was designed to drain off rainwater and thus combat sewer backup and subsequent flooding of basements and overflow into the area's reservoirs...
Chitrabhanu writes that during a conversation with a well-known professor, a master of meditation began pouring tea into the educator's cup. Even though the cup had long overflowed, he continued to pour until the professor finally asked him, "What are you doing?" The tea has overflowed the cup but still you keep on pouring! Why do you keep trying to put more in when there is no room left in the cup?" The master replied, "Yes, my friend, you are right. Your mind is like this teacup. It is filled to the brim with opinions and prejudices, dogma...
...with the declining value of the dollar, they can be invested nowhere more profitably than in the United States. As any real estate broker could tell you, to some extent they are. Nevertheless, the second greatest contributor to our balance-of-payments deficit, after oil, is short-term capital overflow. The problem, again, is not the generating of enough capital. It is keeping it here...