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For the second time I'm off to attend the World Economic Forum at Davos, and again, looking at my schedule, I have over-extended myself... on top of that it seems to be extremely cold and coming from the nice comfortable South East Asian weather, I am certain to end up in a state of hypothermia...
Sebastien Marot: Going to Davos Sebastien Marot 2012
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While I believe many people over-extended themselves, many were duped.
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A family, if they get over-extended and their credit card is too high, they don't just stop paying their bills, he said.
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We understood that this over-extended overly-passionate too-thin-skinned soul-fried man wasn't so different from any of the rest of us.
Larry Strauss: Why Teachers Go Bad Larry Strauss 2011
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I'm really not sure what data we need to tell us whether consumers are over-extended or not.
Debating Rubinomics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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A family, if they get over-extended and their credit card is too high, they don't just stop paying their bills, he said.
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They over-extended themselves, just like Abu Dhabhi excpected.
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Sarah Palin has over-extended her "15 minutes of fame" ad nauseum.
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Whether it's crude, mouth-breathing creationism, its (relatively) more sophisticated and politically savvy sibling, "Intelligent Design," or a reductionist scientism that misses so much and so much, current engagements do little more than entrench positions that either lack coherence and sense (in the case of creationism/ID) or fail dismally to address the full scope of our existential humanity (in the case of over-extended science).
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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While you won't find CM defined on Wikipedia or easily searched on Google, you will find it lurking in the minds and bodies of stressed-out, over-extended, over-committed employees of corporations, everywhere.
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