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Watling said a big risk to the advice for investors to stay cautious is that buy-the-dip psychology proves sticky and his models get overrun.

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These overruns aren’t measured in months or millions but in decades and billions.

Efforts over the past decade to build simpler LNG carriers in the U.S. have run into delays and cost overruns.

In the modern game, which has become overrun by monstrously tall super-athletes who can swish 3-pointers as easily as they throw down dunks, every franchise is searching far and wide for the next big thing.

The city may be in its Goldilocks period: convenient enough for foreigners, but not overrun with them yet.

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

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