Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Africa -- sub-Saharan Africa, at least -- has begun to look like an immense illustration of chaos theory, although some hope is forming on the margins. Much of the continent has turned into a battleground of contending dooms: AIDS and overpopulation, poverty, starvation, illiteracy, corruption, social breakdown, vanishing resources, overcrowded cities...
But the strategy is at least partly born of necessity. On the overcrowded TV dial, establishing new hits has become increasingly difficult -- and expensive. It is cheaper to try to build a following for an existing show than to start from scratch with a new one. Despite their unfashionable demographics...
Throughout the 1980s, Thai society changed rapidly. A boom spurred largely by Japanese and Western investment in chemicals, textiles, consumer electronics and other industries gave the country one of the highest economic growth rates in the world, averaging around 11% from 1987 through 1990 and slowing only to 7.5% in...
In Texas, where the inmate population doubled in the past dozen years and voters last year approved a $1.1 billion bond issue to build 24 new state prisons, hard-line corrections officials want to see more proof that the new concept is effective. Seven months ago, Tarrant County moved 1...
Nationally, big-city jailers, their hands already full controlling pretrial detainees and short-term prisoners in overcrowded conditions, tend to resist such reforms. They want more proof that the new designs are truly more efficient and that their guards will be safe. Proponents counter that with proper screening, violent prisoners...