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The southern Indian city was not always an overrun metropolis.

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The industry has spent years trying to extract lessons from the cost overruns at Vogtle.

It bears the risks of cost overruns and construction delays.

It described the industry as "near-monopolistic", and said both civil and defence programmes are prone to "large cost overruns and schedule delays".

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As a result, the conference usually overruns, sometimes by more than a day.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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