Word: overcrowdedness
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The two-month tide of refugees is hardly abating. Last week 18,000 arrived, and there are still some 500 American boats at the Cuban port of Mariel, held there by the Cuban authorities until they decide who should be piled aboard. The overcrowded craft are often ordered to depart...
To accommodate the growing number of U.S. diplomats and advisers arriving in Egypt, construction will begin next year in downtown Cairo on a gleaming new embassy, complete with sweeping drive and reflecting pool. Although the State Department has not yet approved a final design, the main building will be at...
In the endless effort to cope with one of the world's higher crime rates, the U.S. has long sent more people to prison for longer terms than any other industrialized Western nation except South Africa. Yet the country's penal institutions add up to a national disgrace...
Their popular image in the West is that of a throng of terrorists and refugees. Some of them indeed are that: there are perhaps 47,000 commandos under arms, and more than 650,000 people living in squalid, overcrowded camps scattered across the Middle East. But this community also includes...
Quincy House Committee members are circulating a petition this week calling attention to overcrowded conditions and requesting both the admissions and housing offices to alleviate the problem throughout the housing system.