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His issues were more of the "overcommitment" variety.
Archive 2008-05-01 Academic 2008
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His issues were more of the "overcommitment" variety.
On Toxic Mentoring Academic 2008
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Spending depends on the confidence of households and investors, and right now they seem legitimately worried both about near-term slack in the economy and longer-term overcommitment by the government.
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You say it is grounded in my overcommitment to inerrancy.
The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6 James F. McGrath 2010
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I had a chronic overcommitment problem rooted in a childhood of sleep deprivation and overscheduling by Chinese parents who wanted an overachieving child to show off.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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I had a chronic overcommitment problem rooted in a childhood of sleep deprivation and overscheduling by Chinese parents who wanted an overachieving child to show off.
Overcommitted 2009
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It was an overcommitment that drove policy rather than what is in the larger interest of the US.
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Another view would be that due to underinvestment, overcommitment and the legacy of the Strategic Defense Review which left the forces cut to the bone...
OPEN THREAD 2009
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On the antifascist continuum, apparently, one might be too antifascist — an overcommitment that would soon be condemned as "premature" antifascism.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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And I look at all the Scrooges of the season--you know, the ones who are constantly complaining about rampant commercialism and overcommitment and presents they don't really want and parties they don't feel like attending--and I just feel sad for them.
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