Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although this particular cross-country trip is fictional, the inconveniences experienced by the passengers and crew are all too real. In an age when man can rendezvous and dock spacecraft high above the earth, travel to the moon with pinpoint accuracy and send payloads to much more distant targets in...
Secretary General Strong proved to be a masterly diplomat in dealing with such difficulties. Traveling constantly, the self-made millionaire (he once headed the huge holding company Power Corp. of Canada) convinced the wealthy nations that "the environment is indivisible" and is not the exclusive concern of the rich. With...
For Italians la dolce vita has turned as harsh and unpleasant as the unseasonably cold and wet Roman spring. The economic miracle of Il Boom has petered out, leaving inflation and unemployment. The average Italian worker now spends $1.22 of his $1.55 hourly salary merely for food and shelter. Unemployment...
By decreeing that An Loc be held, President Thieu had inadvertently given it a symbolic importance far beyond its actual strategic value. It bestrides the highway to Saigon, but the city itself is of little military worth. After a two-week siege, An Loc was a shattered city of rotting...
(3 of 10) for fiscal 1973 that is "balanced" only by counting in nearly $800 million of new state and federal aid that it is highly questionable the city will get. The budget gap would be even larger without "economies" that have grievously hurt the quality of life. A prohibition...