Word: overcrowdedness
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Then again, there is no accounting for the Bridge Kitchenware Corp. The Manhattan emporium contains enough implements to satisfy all the descendants of Brillat-Savarin. Yet its owner, Fred Bridge, keeps the store looking more like a warehouse than a house of wares, and when nonbuying shoppers browse through the...
Because of overcrowded housing conditions, Harvard told prospective transfer applicants last year that it was not accepting transfer students for the current school year and in fact admitted only three transfers.
Other investigations, meanwhile, were confirming a familiar story: society, families and the medical profession have not really met their obligations to the elderly. Many nursing homes are overcrowded and understaffed and offer little medical attention to their patients; substandard conditions and financial skulduggery are common throughout the industry. In Illinois...
Throughout the fall of 1918 and the first months of the 1919 winter, an unidentified influenza virus killed 21 million people and affected the lives of 1 billion more, or half the world's population at that time. The bug has been credited with being more effective than the...
Grape prices have dropped by 25% this year, and even more for finer-quality grapes. Vintners who paid the growers $862 per ton for high-quality Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and White Riesling grapes last year are now paying only about $500. Retail price reductions for wine will be...