Word: sprawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jail terms for those between 15 and 45 who refuse to learn to read and write. There are also notable failures. Agricultural production has lagged, despite huge irrigation and land-reclamation projects. Housewives frequently do without such basic foods as potatoes, onions or eggs. Baghdad is afflicted by urban sprawl, air pollution and strained water and electrical facilities...
...issues are exactly the same as they've been over the last ten years--university sprawl, rent control, condominium conversion, and police services, and we're still trying to solve the same problems," Russell, who served on the Council from 1974 to 1977, contends...
Like Los Angeles, the Times tends to sprawl: 350 columns of news a day vs. 160 for the New York Times, and stories that "jump" from page to page to page before concluding. "You don't read the Los Angeles Times," jokes a subscriber. "You weigh it." Yet the Times has become known as a writers' paper, running well-researched stories averaging 2,000 words daily. "No one else is doing that kind of newspaper journalism," boasts Chandler. "It's analogous to a daily newsmagazine...
House libraries can be excellent spots for long-range study, especially since you can (almost permanently) leave your books and memorabilia lying around in a pigpen sprawl. Leverett has the most handsome library, but it may get stuffy, and both it and Winthrop House boast bottomless cushioned chairs. For chugging on late at night. House libraries are your best...
Others locate the blame in the nation's political and social leadership. According to Walter Dean Burnham, a political scientist at M.I.T.: "Most of us pretty much take life as it is given to us by others. For example, destroy local mass transit systems, promote suburban sprawl ... permit central cities to deteriorate into jungles and stimulate the automotive industry by every advertising trick known to man, and what do you get? A spread-out network of settlement, work, distribution and consumption which has become absolutely dependent on the automobile for its existence." Burnham will have none of the "pundits...