Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Colombo, who is credited with executing the plans charted by Bank of Italy Governor Guido Carli for il Boom, also drew up legislation to get the country moving again after a slowdown caused by a wave of strikes. He moved to improve conditions in overcrowded universities and secondary schools. Two...
By last week, when Antigua staged its parliamentary elections, the tune had changed. Outside the Green House, his state residence in St. Johns, Bird was often taunted by children who poked cruel fun at his wart-pocked face. Opponent George Herbert Walter, a former Birdman who established a rival political...
Intensive Care. It all began, according to Harris, "more as a joke than anything else." After pondering the plight of hangover victims, Harris last year took over an abandoned medical laboratory next to his clinic. He installed a whirlpool bath and a steam cabinet and set up treatment rooms with...
Elephant Stress. Serengeti's 5,600 square miles and the surrounding 10,000 square miles are home to an estimated 1,500,000 big game animals-as many as roam the rest of Africa combined-but the lush woodland is being turned increasingly into savannah. Neighboring farmers burn off...
THE REBIRTH of student activism at Harvard. Twenty-six students sign a petition protesting overcrowded conditions in the Houses. Dean May says the overcrowding is due to the barracking of 200 army soldiers in Kirkland House and "the unfortunate collapse" of the Mather House tower, which toppled into the Charles...