Word: overflowed
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Initially, as Harvard began secretly buying up more property in Allston in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, land across the river had been considered a place where overflow dorms and relocated museums could ease the space crunch on the Cambridge campus. These initial dealings were conducted in secret and when the news broke, there was an uproar in the community...
Administrators in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have decided to turn the apartment complex on 10 DeWolfe St. into overflow dormitories by 2004. That means the three floors currently set aside for faculty will be reduced to one faculty floor by next year...
DeWolfe’s location—a prime spot for overflow housing from Quincy and Leverett Houses—makes it an ideal spot for expanded student housing, Woodberry said...
...licensed animal exhibitors in the U.S., and only 200 of them belong to the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, which condemns the sale of exotics to hunting ranches. Even unaffiliated zoos might be reluctant to wade into the canned-hunt market, but many do so unknowingly, selling overflow animals--often products of too successful captive-breeding programs--to middlemen, who pass them into less legitimate hands. The crowding that can result on the ranches leads to animals' being killed not just by hunters but also by diseases that occur in dense populations...
...recent Sunday afternoon, three employees bustle about behind the counter and below a menu of pizzas, hot and cold subs, salads, spaghetti and simple red and yellow paintings thereof. Pictures of chefs, family and the Virgin Mary adorn the back wall of the kitchen. Red plastic booths overflow with pleased patrons and Impressionist prints in gilded frames crowd the wall. A large cardboard box of cans and bottles demonstrates the establishment’s environmental friendliness. The cashier rings up a meal totaling $6.04 but requests only an even $6 from the customer. A couple of officers from the Harvard...