Word: overrun
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...content with producing commercials and 70% of all the station identifications that racket through the middle ear of Middle America, P. & T. is now seeping into the semiconsciousness of the whole world. The BBC's pop network is overrun with Pepper & Tanner jingles ("It's what's happening . . . Radio One"). So is station Rediffusion Singapore. For the state radio system of Malawi, P. & T. tapes are dubbed in Chitumbuka, a native dialect. It was P. & T., naturally, which prerecorded the "This Is Apollo Weather" parody "intros" played by the astronauts during the Apollo 12 moon shot...
...Sunday night meeting had just broken up when news came that the Syrians had overrun Irbid in northern Jordan. Kissinger's deputy, Brigadier General Alexander Haig, ran outside, called the Action Group members back to the situation room. They recommended putting N.C., the on 82nd alert?another Airborne at move Fort Bragg, designed mainly to influence Moscow...
...barely mentions the cities. The Democrats have failed to build a broad national constituency for urban programs. At the local level, faced with the defection of the suburbs and satellite towns, the cities suffer from a shrinking tax base and a slow loss of political power. They have been overrun with career commissioners and inflexible bureaucratic chiefs. The Democrats can make a sensible commitment to enlarge the political boundaries of metropolitan regions and plan for new cities. Idle talk of revenue sharing and decentralization obscures the difficult task of unifying political jurisdictions on a rational regional scale...
...time, indeed, Louis Halle observes in The Cold War as History, when the U.S. had an atomic monopoly and might theoretically have challenged Soviet expansion by interposing a threat of nuclear bombing. Stalin, of course, might have chosen to respond by dispatching the giant Red Army to overrun a then poorly defended Europe. But Halle suggests a broader pragmatism in American restraint: the U.S. could not and did not attempt any such nuclear blackmail because it might have threatened "the whole fabric of world order...
Bonuses for Productivity. As an Arab, Osman naturally has an edge over outside bidders. He has also taken to heart modern methods of cost accounting. Because he built Aswan and has never had a major cost overrun, he dominates the field for Egyptian construction contracts, most of them military. He employs no subcontractors, passing on the savings to his employees in productivity bonuses that sometimes amount to two or three times their wages. That way, he always has a reserve of trained labor on call. "I have three basic points in every project," he says. "In order of importance they...