Word: jam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven-square-mile valley that is easily accessible and is ringed by spectacularly beautiful cliffs up to 7,000 ft. high. The valley has campsites for 9,348 people, lodge and hotel accommodations for another 4,500. That is scarcely sufficient for the 20,000 tourists who jam the valley every day all summer, let alone the 45,000 who swarm there on holiday weekends...
Egypt has so many civil servants that U.S. consultants have recommended firing 60% of them in order to relieve the bureaucratic jam. Egypt's poorly maintained air, rail and road transport systems are in a sorry state. Such basics as rice, matches and meat are scarce. The cotton crop, afflicted by a bollworm plague this year, is in hock to Soviet-bloc countries to pay for the delivery of factories, which the Egyptians manage inefficiently. In fact, there is only one thing that really works in Egypt-the Suez Canal. Because its foreign-exchange earnings are vital, the canal...
...ailments will be until after the program goes into effect next month, but there are plenty of symptoms to worry about. To wit: ∙CROWDED FACILITIES. No one in the Administration or in the American Medical Association can be really certain as to how many aged eligibles will jam into hospitals for long-delayed, noncritical "elective" operations or other "nonessential" treatment. It would not take too many to cause a serious problem, for there are not many beds available; some 25% of the nation's hospitals are already filled to capacity. Beyond that, the Medicare bill prescribes medical standards...
Britain has food enough to last about eight weeks, and foreign ships could easily keep the supply above the danger level. The trouble is that the idled British ships so jam Britain's ports that soon foreign vessels may be unable to find room to unload. So Wilson is considering calling on Royal Navy crews to board the freighters and move them away from docks. But the dockers and railworkers have warned that if he brings the navy into the strike, they, too, may walk off their jobs...
...After that it's gangbusters. Everything is so tangled that it takes twelve to 18 months before a first hearing on any charge; a final judgment takes years. The clog in courthouse and jailhouse gets worse as each year gets older. Then, every so often, just before the jam-up becomes impossible to handle, the Italians resort to a sure cure: a general amnesty for all but the most dangerous offenders...