Word: overcrowdedness
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The problem started when the FAA discovered that Washington's National Airport was overcrowded--a discovery hastened somewhat on an unforgettable afternoon several years ago when an aerial traffic jam over the Capital threw the entire East into chaos and put every flight on the coast two hours behind schedule...
But the FAA does not run Friendship, and it does not regard it as a Washington airport. Apparently unhappy because it did not have administrative control over the new center of Washington's long-haul traffic, the FAA decided to build a new airport (which nobody wanted) in the middle...
Given the chance, the poor people would fill the vacant apartments in short order. About 85% of Beirut's 500,000 people live in apartments, many of them overcrowded. Near the fetid Beirut River and in rubbish-strewn vacant lots across the city 10,000 refugees live in squalid...
The four singers are known as "The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem," and two of the Clancys come by their revolutionary impulses honestly-they are former members of the I.R.A. Old-style revolution, however, was not nearly so lucrative as recording or touring, and the Clancys have learned that practical...
What Radcliffe's individualistic girls have in common are English bicycles, guitars and extremely hard work, made harder by their compulsion to do even more than asked. "They go to the library and underline and underline," observes a Radcliffe senior. They are too busy for newspapers and politics: "So...