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In short, the Reform Party is both run and overrun by people who make Ross Perot look sane and rational.
Getting a federal government’s priorities in proper perspective, one member of parliament bemoaned the cultural center as “50 years ahead of its time — that’s how long it’ll take the taxpayers to meet the 500 percent cost overrun.”
In this brand-new digital economy we're supposedly inhabiting, competitive advantage can be eroded in an instant, and large companies with lots of fixed assets are doomed to being overrun by quick-moving startups who can adapt better to a world of rapid technological innovation.
This left the country to be overrun by various barbarian tribes, especially the Vandals.
In 1070 b.c. the country was split again and foreign powers began to overrun the borders.