Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The occasion of the exchange is the opening of school in Chicago and an attempt to bus about 900 students from overcrowded black schools to under-crowded white ones. An estimated 6,000 local residents plan to boycott the first day of school this week as black transfer students are...
But the prospects for such imaginative treatment were none too good. For several days after the blackout, the looting suspects swamped the city's already overburdened judicial system. They spent up to six days waiting for arraignment, packed in overcrowded, sweltering cells where faucets often dispensed only a trickle...
Though it takes only one-third the time today to fly between major cities that it did in 1948, it takes twice as long to get from city to airport. Once arrived, passengers must be prepared to wait too long and walk too far in overcrowded terminals. Airports are heavily...
Haldeman was assigned last week to general maintenance work in Lompoc's power plant. His eight-hour shift begins at 7:50 a.m. Mitchell must go through an orientation week before receiving his assignment, but is expected to be given clerical duties in the prison where his color photograph...
From Harvard's perspective, the University's mistakes were magnified by the almost lemming-like reluctance of seniors and their families to leave stifling, overcrowded Palmer-Dixon, where the clambake was held, for the more comfortable outdoors.