Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The overcrowded and often tardy shuttles are enough to ruin anyone's day, she says, especially in the cold and wet winter mornings.
Most people on a drizzly and cold Saturday afternoon last month looked grateful to be getting on a bus and avoiding a long walk in the cold rain. But they faulted the system, saying it is plagued by lax drivers, overcrowded buses and a lack of service at certain hours...
But the overcrowded conditions are especially evident during the early morning runs between Currier and Memorial Hall. A mass of people usually gather outside of Currier and immediately begin fighting for position by the shuttle doors as it rolls to a stop.
MEASURING 5.9 ON THE RICHTER SCALE, THE EARTHquake that shook Cairo last Monday was only a medium-size tremor by world standards. But Cairo's densely overcrowded neighborhoods, the rickety state of much of the city's older housing and the shoddy construction of some of the city's newer...
The World Bank report looked at the African regression: modest development after independence in the '60s, stagnation in the '70s, decline in the '80s. Factors such as drought and the oil crisis obviously played a role. But the principal cause of the continent's wasting disease was seen as a...