Word: overcrowdedness
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Resettlement is an ambitious government scheme to move 1.5 million peasants from the overcrowded and barren north to the more fertile south. While international agricultural officials acknowledge that the program is a legitimate effort to solve some of the country's long-term social and economic problems, they charge that...
The arrival of December traditionally brings cold weather, holiday television specials, and overcrowded shopping malls. At Harvard, the elections of seniors to Phi Beta Kappa also grace the final month of the year.
The gathering gloom may not be apparent to the expected 17.5 million visitors to New York this year. The city's jangling geometry is still energizing, the shops tantalizing, the street life mesmerizing. But New York is like the wedding cake in a bakery window: an exquisite excess of spun...
The decision to put the suspects in Louvain outraged convicts at other Belgian prisons. Hundreds of inmates hurled stones and set fires at the overcrowded Forest and St. Gilles jails in Brussels. If convicted, the English fans could each be sentenced to ten years in prison.
In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne wears a crimson A as punishment for adultery. In Portland, Ore., Richard Bateman may wear a similar badge of shame when released from jail in two months. At his sentencing in May, Judge Dorothy M. Baker knew that he was unlikely to spend a...