Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In his first and most successful drive for the White House he covered 160,000 miles and 40 states in 18 months before the GOP convention. But the Republicans were not to recapture the White House for another four years so the field was crowded. He won only the Wisconsin...
On being confronted he is, at first, incredulous, then condescending, furious, and scared out of his wits. Parts of the book are as good as signed by the real author--riddled with stories of May's mother (half Yente, half Bakunin, she would cook stews and make bombs for the...
The California state prison at San Quentin is a grim and foreboding symbol of the American way of punishment. The vast maximum-security prison is so old (parts of it date back to 1852) that it is a maze of outdated plumbing, frayed wiring and inadequate sanitation. It is so...
This spectacular increase has created appalling living conditions for many inmates, who are sleeping in gymnasiums, day rooms, corridors, tents, trailers and other forms of makeshift housing. Until early November, 170 prisoners were sleeping on the floor of a gymnasium at Illinois' Centralia Correctional Center. And Maryland, with one...
That Christmas spirit of spending was in the air as shoppers embarked on a robust post-Thanksgiving Day parade into stores. No longer held back by recession worries, consumers were buying presents that ranged from stocking stuffers to such big-ticket items as television sets and refrigerators. This season'...