Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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On the basis of diagnostic tests given during the reception stage of his confinement, Jackson was assigned to the vocational school at Tracy. However, that school, like the one at Lancaster it was built to supplement, already was overcrowded: so the Youth Authority sent prisoner A-63837 to the medium...
The hardest decisions that Halaby faces involve cutting Pan Am's elephantine overhead costs. The line is paying interest rates as high as 11¼% to finance its 747s. Pan Am has a poor 54% passenger break-even load factor v. 48% for TWA. Salvation through the merger route...
Trends can be fickle, however. Not only did fewer people decide to take leaves this year, but others who had been on extended leaves--constituting absences of as long as six years in some cases-unexpectedly returned to Harvard in droves. Coupled with the emerging trend toward fall-term residency...
The end result was that fewer people were able to move off campus (which is desirable in light of the overcrowded Cambridge housing market), and, in the massive shuffling of people from Harvard to Radcliffe and back, a substantial amount of room was unwisely distributed. In many cases those who...
The Jail, long-cited as an obsolete and overcrowded institution, is used primarily to house convicted men awaiting sentencing and men awaiting trial who are too poor to post bond.