Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For two centuries, cities were an irresistible magnet for internal American migration. In the 1970s, however, that path was reversed as nonmetropolitan areas grew by 14.4% and metropolitan areas by 10.5%. Since 1980, however, that "rural turnaround" has again turned around, with metro areas growing faster than non-metro areas...
Together, we sat in Ike's room, trading Ike stories and sifting through 19 years of clutter--Ike never threw anything away. Now, the clutter and memories are all that remain of an old friend. Ike's funeral was the following day. Hundreds of friends and relatives crowded the temple...
The Square is a virtual paradise for the lunch goer with enough salad bar, quichey places around for each and every hungry yuppie. And, if you desire sandwiches or soup and salad for dinner, you'll be happy with most of these places (in no particular order) as well: The...
The closest thing Harvard has to a campus pub is the two-year-old Picadilly Filly (123 Mt. Auburn St.). Crowded, not too large and not too bright, you'll find more people you know in this inexpensive pickup joint than you'll find in your dorm. If, on the...
There are now large ghettos within ghettos. Haitians, about half of them in the U.S. illegally, are concentrated in the heart of Brooklyn's black area in a quarter they call La Saline, after the Port au Prince neighborhood from which many came. Hand-lettered French signs are pasted on...