Word: overstretched
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...havens has continued to expand, defense spending has failed to keep pace even as equipment costs have spiraled upward. The prospect of lean times as Britain reins in its budget deficit has pitched army, navy and air force commanders into open turf wars. Lower down the ranks, the endemic overstretch expresses itself in a stark statistic: according to Britain's Ministry of Defence, 1 in 5 troops is unfit for frontline duty, often as a result of injury or psychological damage. Officials from France and the U.K. have discussed burden-sharing, including the possibility of joint nuclear-submarine patrols...
...denying the facts. The U.S. is the world's largest debtor nation and only digging itself in deeper. Respect for corporate America is evaporating. Profligacy produced sham economic growth. A disconnect between Washington's global ambitions and its available resources - what British historian Paul Kennedy calls "imperial overstretch" - has undermined national strength...
...millions of dollars on TV ads and other efforts to thwart it. Members of Congress are griping about the way it steps on the toes of existing agencies they like. And those on the political right have taken to characterizing the CFPA as a classic case of Democratic regulatory overstretch. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...moving than new construction, and the Federal Highway Administration has calculated that repairs create 9% more jobs per dollar spent. And while repairs eliminate potholes and other problems that cost motorists time and money, new construction tends to produce rural or exurban sprawl roads that promote speculative development, overstretch municipal services, lengthen commutes and increase gasoline consumption and emissions. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
...hold their own beliefs on knowledge, mathematics, and black identity, are an important but lesser known presence in hip-hop. Reeves would have done well to integrate them in his argument that rap is the new black power movement, but they unfortunately go unmentioned. Reeves also has a tendency overstretch his intellectual analysis of his subject. For example, Reeves says that Snoop Dogg’s obscenely misogynistic “Ain’t No Fun” “offers its acidic views towards women as a theme for merriment and building male camaraderie” when...