CONSIDERATIONS The problem with this uptick in interest in prizes is that certain fields are becoming overrun, and this can dull a prize's effectiveness.
With 165,000 in Irbid, 157,000 in Amman, 53,000 in Zarqa, and 31,000 in Al-Mafraq, host communities throughout Jordan are becoming, "overrun with refugees".
The world is becoming overrun with app stores, all very slightly different, but all offering Angry Birds.
What began as a platform for homeowners with spare rooms to make a bit of pocket money on the side, is becoming overrun with property entrepreneurs looking for lucrative short term gains.
Next June will see the 11th edition of the race – and its second year on a new course after organisers Racing the Planet decided the original location was becoming overrun by economic development.
Fearful that Central America was becoming overrun by organized crime, perhaps worse than in the worst parts of Mexico, the State Department, the D.E.A. and the Pentagon rushed ahead this year with a muscular antidrug program with several Latin American nations, hoping to protect Honduras and use it as a chokepoint to cut off the flow of drugs heading north.
"Washington Street is becoming overrun with stores like Cingular, Nextel, Verizon and Washington Mutual, all people who can afford the rent, but don't necessarily have the business coming in to pay the rent," said Patricia Scribner, 29, owner of Patricia's Yarns, in the basement of 728 Washington Street.
The charity Plantlife told us that the countryside is becoming overrun by weeds like nettles and hogweed because of nitrogen compounds emitted by diesel engines.
The move comes at a time when the app stores are overrun with content, and consumers are becoming less inclined to seek out and try new applications.
But, given that the shipbuilding programs are already plagued with cost overruns and delays, penny-pinching options are becoming valuable.
But after years of failing to control cost overruns, the most powerful officials at the Pentagon are becoming increasingly alarmed that the machinery for building weapons is breaking down under its own weight.
