Word: overcrowdedness
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The migrants are allowed to enter the 'host' countries only insofar as they are needed in the labor force. Most migrants are men in their twenties and thirties, since the immigration authorities discourage them from bringing in their families. Rigorous medical examinations exclude all but the healthiest applicants. Once he...
Fibers have enormous advantages over wires. Because they do not "leak" light as copper wires "leak" electricity, fibers should eliminate the cross talk and static that can occur when one telephone wire spills some of its signal into a neighboring line. Measuring as little as one-thousandth of an inch...
Zero Mostel, who grew up in a small, overcrowded tenement apartment, recalls that "the alliance gave me a new life-I had never seen such big rooms before!"
The reshuffling had barely begun. Soon after being sworn in as President, Sayem addressed the nation, promising a return to parliamentary rule by February 1977. A few hours later, Radio Bangladesh crackled with news that General Zia had returned to power, as chief of staff of the Bangladesh army but...
Some courts have tried to reduce the crowding, but without much success. In 1970, for example, a federal judge in Louisiana ruled that conditions in a New Orleans prison constituted cruel and unusual punishment and ordered the convict population cut from 1,200 to 450; it is still almost double...