Word: overcrowdedness
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Most of the boat people are set adrift in hopelessly overcrowded craft with inadequate food and water. Many of the vessels have capsized in tropical storms; others have been attacked at sea by pillaging Thai pirates.
More agile Hong Kong businessmen have started to shift some of their production to China, which has what the overcrowded colony lacks: plenty of space and unskilled labor. Already 200 firms have some operations in China-mostly of the labor-intensive kind-and 200 more expect to set up shop...
On the same 20° N. latitude line as Hong Kong, Mecca, Mexico City and Calcutta, Maui (pop. 54,000) is the second biggest, second youngest (some 15 million years old) of the 132 islands of the 50th and southernmost state. Maui County attracts more visitors than any other of...
Bubba, 4 ft. 7 in., 75 lb., was packed off to join 1,800 felons at Mississippi's overcrowded state penitentiary at Parchman. Predicted Ronald R. Welch, director of the Mississippi Prisoners' Defense Committee: "He'll never live out the sentence."
Indeed, the Chrysler pullout has been followed by a tattoo of smaller but no-less-widely reported U.S. retrenchments. Two weeks ago, employees at an RCA semiconductor plant employing 438 workers near Liêge, Belgium, began picketing with placards attacking the company-not for being part of the American...