He also blamed the "overextension"   of benefits and salaries to educators for some of the financial hardships faced by schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Siskiyou Daily News Homepage RSS] Reference

The disease was suffering from “extreme clinical overextension.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crazy Like Us] Reference

O'BRIEN: Is he essentially saying that overextension of troops is not an issue?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2003] Reference

Two more milestones in the retreat from America's imperial overextension in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Cobble: Antiwar Rising] Reference

This is beyond an overextension of an alleged mandate; this is total acquiescence to extremism.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Perks] Reference

The overextension of our military slows our response not only to hurricanes, tornados and fires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Rieckhoff: Fighting Overseas While Fires Burn at Home] Reference

Worry, lack of sleep, overextension in all quarters of life tend to strangle the moodling impulse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Write On Wednesday – Feelin’ Groovy] Reference

Meaning, of all the criticisms of the war by troops, overextension seems to be the number one issue for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jon Soltz: On What the Troops Want] Reference

Both the czarist and Communist empires collapsed, materially and spiritually exhausted by their overextension.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beware: A Threat Abroad] Reference

It seems as if credit card availability, and thus overextension, is a major, if not the major main bankruptcy culprit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Motives and Consequences, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Although divisionalized firms are adept at moving incrementally into related areas, they are also vulnerable to overextension.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fit, Failure, and the Hall of Fame] Reference

And there was always the fear that such an overextension could, in fact, embolden our enemies to take advantage of the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brandon Friedman: We've Lost our Ability to Deter] Reference

However, that overextension needed to be exploited through affirmative action before the Soviets corrected their course themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

HENRY KISSINGER, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: A lot of statesmanship is to find a party position between stagnation and overextension.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2008] Reference

And I say this as someone who thinks that libertarians and conservatives have a point about the overextension of the commerce clause.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Bad News for Federalism? Some Preliminary Reflections on Comstock] Reference

Senator McCain opposed efforts to end the overextension of the military -- a policy that is having a devastating impact on our troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brandon Friedman: McCain's Non-Support for Troops and Veterans: The Master List] Reference

The thorniest problems occur when a debt is truly owed and a consumer, through overextension or inadvertence, falls behind in paying it.    From Wordnik.com.  [What You Should Know About Collection Agencies )] Reference

· Senator McCain opposed efforts to end the overextension of the military -- a policy that is having a devastating impact on our troops.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Has a Record - His Votes Against Veterans] Reference

In a phone interview Tuesday, Moses acknowledged that the winery was a victim of overextension and bad timing, given the economic collapse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wine: A blow to Virginia's largest winery] Reference

We do well to remember that many analysts attribute the fiscal collapse of the Soviet Union to overextension in their own Afghan occupation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gabriel Lajeunesse: Towards a Fiscally and Politically Solvent Counterterrorism Strategy] Reference

This overextension will cause worsening problems at home, become a threat to the open society, and lead to serious political challenges down the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Hayden: Long War Needs Long Peace Movement] Reference

I think it's more cynical to think that form of democratic opennes is cynical than the contest itself (or just a gross overextension of Obama's catchphrase).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hillary's Campaign Song Originally Written For...Air Canada Ad] Reference

But the vast middle, the 90-plus percent who are current on their mortgages, are not the ones skewing the overall statistics or creating the general impression of overextension.    From Wordnik.com.  [We’ve Still Got Room to Spend] Reference

After so many thousands of corporations "Enronized" in toxic clouds of overextension and greed, Solartopia decided that capitalism may be one thing, but cannibalism quite another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvey Wasserman: This Earth Day, Beat King CONG & Sign Up for Solartopia!] Reference

What is astonishing is how the measure of overextension has declined.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heritage Foundation Papers] Reference

A carpus stock crapper be u an daytime or long to preclude overextension and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

After a period of unification and expansion under the dark rider, Russia inevitably suffers from overextension.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Russophobe] Reference

I wonder how much of their brand dilution comes from overextension vs overfranchising, or from lack of good competition?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketing Profs Daily Fix] Reference

Hopefully, people will someday realize that what counts is the overextension of state power, not who holds public office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mises Dailies] Reference

We do well to remember that many analysts attribute the fiscal collapse of the Soviet Union to overextension in their own.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Wasn't it the nationwide lack of savings and overextension of credit - institutional and personal - that got us into this mess?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front] Reference

Wasn't it the nationwide lack of savings and overextension of credit -- institutional and personal -- that got us into this mess?.    From Wordnik.com.  [dispatch.com: RSS] Reference

Let's hope it's not, but many of the signs - overextension of credit, exhaustion of demand, worldwide decline in economic activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines] Reference

Its overextension is now playing a role in the financial collapse of high-flying Dubai which unlike Abu Dhabi is relatively oil poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [MyDD] Reference