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Second, he had to cut the overhead at his old company.

And the point is it's all a lot of overhead.

Very last overhead, and you've only got to look at half of it.

He'd known that just three people making his overhead for the day was too good to be true.

Together we would be able to reduce all our overhead.

The overhead there is much higher than a place like this.

Most of these companies have more corporate overhead than they need.

He then quickly hit an overhead into the net for the game.

"We are now making final approach," said the voice from the overhead.

Now, there's some overhead in doing that kind of thing.

When she hit the overhead, it was a hell of a sound.

He looked up and saw that the overhead was becoming dark.

Why do we have to pay all the overhead for them to survive?

And I thought, okay, we've got to find out what kind of overhead we have here.

He later hit an overhead with both hands on the grip.

The ceiling of the room was almost as high overhead.

The sky overhead was clear, and the stars were still out.

The sun was still high overhead but had already begun to set.

Mostly they were closed, and the light overhead was turned low.

Given the difficult security environment in Iraq, overhead was expected to run closer to 10 percent.

You're going to be able to remove one set of overhead from management.

Blue overhead, white at the back of the chamber, red on her left.

When she knew the world around her again, the light overhead was much brighter.

Would she elect to have four or five children, to help pay the overhead, like her mother did?

Only one of the men was able to return fire and his bullets went into the overhead.

So the overheads involved in running a smaller store are higher.

I moved my chair a little and focused myself on the overheads.

The manager will have business overheads which make sure he or she can do the job properly.

We have some satellite overheads that show where the Chinese are.

Ben called for the lights to go down as he started into his overheads.

But the picture is one of sluggish sales and high overheads.

I think what we may get away with then is handouts and less overheads.

He flipped a light switch, and the overheads came on.

When you hit 10 or 12 overheads on each point, that is very tiring.

Companies with a low quality trading policy need to keep down their overheads (see page 147).

We have overheads three hours old, and the field is empty."

Energy use accounts for a large proportion of your kitchen's overheads.

I gave her a lot of short overheads, and she put almost all of them away.

You make the case that charities with high overheads can be more efficient in the field.

It would be known that we saw something, possibly overheads, certainly among this very large crew.

"What the hell, we've been watching their military with overheads for a long time.

Their figures are worse than yours, and they've got ten times your overheads!

There are often phenomenal overheads in putting a band on the road.

The bright, hot overheads were out, but the air was still balmy.

In the end, the location was poorly chosen and the overheads were too high.

The bank says it has turned the cost centre into a business in an attempt reduce overheads.

Finally, the allocation of the overheads raises some tricky questions.

"Charitable organizations like to keep the overheads down," I remarked.

You'll probably pick her up there on overheads tomorrow.

The Overheads illuminated only the top of his head.