Word: overcrowded
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TIME is to be commended for its coverage of "The Population Curse" [WORLD, Aug. 6]. Our solutions to all other world problems will fail if too many people are allowed to overcrowd the globe...
...success of Harvard and other colleges in real estate and venture capital has prompted many other endowment funds to seek them out, a situation which may eventually overcrowd the investing market and drive down the rates of return. This happened in the field of "stock lending," one of the University's earliest ventures into unconventional investing, which has since been widely emulated and hence fallen in value...
...these perils are apparent to any shore-bound summer tourist. On Massachusetts' Cape Cod, four-wheel-drive vehicles have deeply rutted broad stretches of beach. On New York's Long Island and the New Jersey shore, vacation cottages overcrowd once pristine dunescapes. From those states southward, the Atlantic shore, with scattered exceptions, seems destined to become a stretch of boardwalk and pizza-parlor tackiness...
...member of a group of faculty members who shared a concern about the library's impact, says the group's single dominant concern was increased traffic. An influx of cars and people into the area, the group maintained, would block access to the Square, increase air pollution levels and overcrowd the area...
Already straw votes indicate that most of the non-student members are willing to consider enlarging the undergraduate student body by at least 10 per cent to accomodate more women. This would almost surely necessitate another large scale construction project for additional dormitory space, and further overcrowd classrooms...