Word: overbuilt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what if critics complained that the city was increasingly crowded, dirty, overbuilt and unworkable? Koch could ignore them -- until two years ago, when disclosures of widespread corruption revealed that his administration was beset by the same complacency and cronyism that the mayor had denounced in his predecessors. Other problems festered. Black residents grew outraged at the New York City police, accusing them of the unwarranted shooting of blacks, including a 66-year-old woman killed as she was being evicted from her apartment. When three blacks were brutally assaulted by a gang of whites in Howard Beach, Queens, last December...
...because it is very expensive in their own country. The average cost of leasing commercial real estate in Tokyo's saturated downtown market is now more than 20 times as high as it is in New York City, and 30 times as high as in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, the overbuilt American skyline beckons...
...American housing crisis is simply a variation ol the American car crisis: in years past, both were overbuilt Now in housing as in cars, Americans are suffering the discomforts oi what Detroit calls "downsizing." The ultimate result could be both better transportation and better shelter. Maybe...
This grinding of international wills, like the huge muscling of the earth's tectonic plates, threatens to crush the Olympics. Some people believe that might be just as well. The Olympics have become preposterously overcommercial and overbuilt, unwieldy and ruinously expensive. NBC paid the Soviets $87 million for television rights to the Moscow Games (and with laudable forbearance has stayed out of the argument over the boycott). For $50,000 to $300,000, a company can buy into the Games; Dannon paid up, for example, and so can advertise itself, with meaningless grandeur, as "The Official Yogurt...