Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is a subject that makes museums nervous, and perhaps it is not so strange that no museum show in recent memory has focused on forgery and its ramifications. Hence the interest of "Fake? The Art of Deception," a sprawling and overcrowded array of more than 600 objects, on view...
The explosive growth extended the bleak stretches of treeless housing tracts, especially inland. It intensified the traditional local conflict between a laid-back resort atmosphere and a stressful development. It imposed urban ills like crime and overcrowded jails. But at the same time it threw open the doors of opportunity...
The red brick Hampden jail is a microcosm of the nation's correctional crisis. Constructed when Grover Cleveland was President, it handles offenders with sentences of up to 30 months, many of them for violent crimes. For years Massachusetts prisons have been among the most overcrowded in the country, recently...
Despite protests, Washington hangs tough in the Pacific. -- Rather than release felons from his overcrowded jail, Sheriff Michael Ashe takes over a Massachusetts armory. -- A novel way to put more cops on the beat.
I think I've finally discovered what the UC is all about. These same misfits whose actions we generally indulge or ignore (and occasionally ridicule) aren't the harmless nuisances we've always thought they were; indeed, they're craftier than Bob Vila. Our representatives aren't whimpering dolts, they...