Word: glut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somehow that objective has not been reached, and more and more students have been forced to live in the Riverside community. What happens, as these large numbers of students continue to glut the market, is that real estate speculators become increasingly willing to pay outrageous prices for family houses, knowing that the return on the buildings, if rented to students, would be nothing short of phenomenal. The owner soon discovers that he can make anywhere from two to four times more by renting to students. In one example, a house on Hughes St. was being rented at about...
...recession that, although relatively mild in historical terms, has thrown the fear of wolves into the most resolutely buoyant consumer. Simultaneously, even the most heedless slob in a throwaway society begins to understand that his cans and bottles and poisoned gases are piling up in a fatal glut...
...pitiable musical play adapted by Leon Uris from his bestselling novel Exodus, has been dated both by history and the glut of Jewish musicals trying to emulate the success of Fiddler on the Roof. However morally admirable, it is difficult, 22 years after the event, to work up a passionate present concern over the ordeal of founding Israel. This season, Broadway has seemed like a secular synagogue. Prior to Ari were The Rothschilds (pleasant) and Two by Two (puerile), plus the Yiddish shows Light, Lively and Yiddish and The President's Daughter. To all concerned, shalom and enough already...
...described his wife as "a member of the Ph.D. glut you've heard about." But she hopes to find a teaching post soon...
Concerning the glut in the Ph. D. market, the report questioned "the addition of more quality faculties and programs in areas of relatively abundant production of traditional Ph. D. degrees." Citing the lower quality of new programs in comparison with established programs, the report frowned upon further expansion at many aspiring universities...