Word: crowdedness
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There are 30 other big gas plants in and around Mexico City, the world's largest metropolis (pop. 18 million). One facility frequently cited as a potential "time bomb" is a refinery at Azcapotzalco, in the northern part of the city, that was built in 1959. At the time...
When Fidel Castro opened up the Cuban port of Mariel in 1980 and approximately 125,000 Cubans streamed into the U.S., President Carter urged Congress to pass legislation making the newcomers eligible for permanent resident status. But Congress never complied. Since then, the Marielitos, most of whom live in Florida...
Mitsumasa Anno has been called the Escher of Japan because of his ability to trick the eye and educate the mind. In Anno's Flea Market (Philomel; $11.95), two old peasants wheel a cart across a medieval square. Horseless carriages suddenly appear in the background. A stagecoach is on...
IMAGINE the enormous bureaucracy which would be needed to enforce complicated comparable worth legislation. Aside from the sheer cost of maintaining such a force in an era which demands economic restraint, already over-crowded courts would be inundated with complaints brought forward by the necessarily random guidelines of the agency...
As overheated elevator motor in Quincy House last night forced a dinnertime evacuation of the new building including the crowded dinning hall.