Word: overcrowdedness
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Though it won more Assembly seats than any other party (25 out of 72), it failed to win a majority for the first time in Pakistan's eight years as a nation. The Moslem League took its worst beating in overcrowded East Pakistan (pop. 42 million), which has never...
For decades the barren, overcrowded Mezzogiorno-the southern two-fifths of Italy that has 37% of the nation's population-has been a vast poorhouse. And World War II, which destroyed 28% of the south's already lagging industrial capacity (v. 18% in the north), seemed the final...
"Culture is what remains when everything else is forgotten," runs an old French proverb. Consequently, upper-bracket tradition has it that youth studies the classics. The liberal professions are overcrowded. Hundreds of philosophy, literature and history majors appear as candidates for a handful of university teaching jobs; openings for scientists...
In Britain, Germany and The Netherlands, higher wages and improved living conditions are now providing a strong inducement for workers to stay at home. In France and Switzerland the governments forbade immigration agents to advertise or hold public meetings to make their pitch. Hard-luck stories from recent emigrants had...
Speaking in an overcrowded Harkness Common to 500 people, Knowland said it is important for the United States "to demonstrate to the Communist world that there will be no further retreats or the abandonment of free people into Communist hands."