Word: crowdedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For many editors, a major concern is that the chain-bookstore outlets, which give little space on their increasingly crowded shelves to titles without mass appeal, will eventually reduce the publishing industry's incentive to bring out worthy books if they don't seem headed for the best-seller lists...
Foreigners crowded Beijing's airport, trying to escape a chaotic city where tanks and troops raced along main avenues firing at random. In Washington, the State Department urged all Americans "to leave at once" and has begun to charter commercial aircraft to help evacuate civilians from Beijing and Shanghai.
There are no screaming sirens, no darting searchlights, but a huge prison break is going on all across the country. After a decade of tough, mandatory sentences and soaring drug arrests, U.S. prisons are overstuffed with inmates. Nearly 628,000 convicted criminals, more than the population of Milwaukee, are bursting...
At a time when money is desperately needed for crumbling roads and declining schools, the fastest-growing sector of state spending is prison construction. Legislatures across the country are considering outlays of $10 billion over the next six years. In 1983 Texas spent $288 million on prison construction and operation...
To see what is peculiar to American Samoa, one need travel only 40 miles across the waters to Western Samoa, a relatively forgotten independent island that has four times as many people as its American namesake, but no congressional support. In Western Samoa, people speak English in the gentle, sea...