Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The breathless clip of events in the Philippines last week left President Corazon Aquino with little room for herself, both figuratively and literally. A steady string of tasks, from selecting a Cabinet and ordering up various commissions to greeting diplomats and receiving journalists, crowded her time from the moment the...
The ebullient beat of calypso music wafted across the crowded field. Some 40,000 Grenadians waiting for their first words from the President of the United States swayed to the lyrics of the country's most popular ballad. The song, which recounts the landing of U.S. troops on the tiny...
Last spring more than 5000 people crowded the steps of Memorial Church on the anniversary of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s death to listen to the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and join a rally for divestment. That night, April 4, about 75 protesters camped outside President Derek...
His comments appeared to be directed at other candidates in the crowded field who have attracted more publicity during the campaign and maintained higher public profiles during their political careers.
French Interior Minister Pierre Joxe set his jaw and adopted a determined tone. "The terrorists wanted to unsettle public opinion, and they have succeeded," he said. "But they also hope to intimidate the government, and there they will not succeed." Even as Joxe spoke, Paris was a city nearly under...