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overruns
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vb. (en-third-person singular of: overrun )
Usage examples of overruns.
Also, its tradition of rarely spending all the money budgeted because its quiet leaders believed that any project ought to be cost-efficient, raised suspicions, for Washington felt that any agency which did not have huge overruns could not be doing serious work.
She told the senator he should attack NASA's huge budget overruns and continued White House bailouts as the quintessential example of President Herney's careless overspending.
The space agency's recent string of failed missions and gargantuan budget overruns had earned NASA the dubious honor of becoming Sexton's unofficial poster child against big government overspending and inefficiency.
A year later, the rumors of serious cost overruns on the Expedition project surfaced.
As a defense contractor, Platt & Rockland had a rich history of cost overruns, overbilling, and false claims.
The overruns have been distressing, but remember that if you crank in the inflation factor, we’ve spent very little more than we predicted we would back in 1971.
Like so many NASA projects of late, it had been plagued with costly overruns right from the start.
What concerned the 'Birds'—another sobriquet—were the 500 per cent overruns and the restricted degree of competitive bidding in defence contracts.
Cost overruns and unexpected technical difficulties had delayed the missile's production for the better part of a decade, and with the first production models going to the Air Force, the new missile had been slow to reach Navy combat units.
The Navy had hoped to replace the Intruder with the ultra-stealthy A-12 Avenger in the 1990s, but the Secretary of Defense had scrapped the project when budget overruns had reached scandal proportions.
Then Congress refused to fund the CSGN program, and cost overruns threatened to torpedo the Ticonderogas and their high-tech Aegis system as well.
He sent this memo off in the same mail bag as his memo on the topic of needed improvements in the postal system, which was appended to his memo on rural transportation which accompanied his urgent memo in regard to cost overruns in the land titles department.
Cost overruns in military weapons systems are permitted on a scale that would be considered unacceptable in the civilian sphere.
Together these sums represent the equivalent of two or three nuclear submarines per decade, or the cost overruns on one of the many weapon systems in a single year.