Word: overcrowdedness
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Too much diversity on the menu can backfire, according to industry executives. McDonald's had a notable flop with its McRib sandwich a couple of years ago, and other chains have hurt their service and lost customers by adding too many new items. "A lot of restaurants make the mistake...
Amid confusion, reports put the toll as high as 400 dead and 6,000 injured. Scores of stricken people lay outside overcrowded hospitals. Others wandered aimlessly through broken streets covered with shattered glass. Hardest hit were the city's slums, where wood and adobe shanties simply crumbled. Many victims were...
After only a few days on the job, people began to notice me. Drunken revelers in overcrowded room parties suddenly shouted, “It’s the Roving Reporter!” My friends stopped describing me to others as the short girl with brown hair who looks...
That borrowed courage can vanish when one changes from witness to participant, as Lloyd Parry learns during his reckoning in East Timor, the book's most gripping section. After the embattled province votes for its independence from Jakarta in 1999, Lloyd Parry watches as anti-independence militias, seemingly with the...
Meanwhile, the downsides to a basement pub are virtually nonexistent. There is an issue of cost, but Pub Nights have had popularity unrivaled by other social events and are the best possible investment for our social-improvement dollars. At worst, a permanent pub would drain the attendance of other parties...