Word: sprawls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of Egyptians increases, people have spilled out of the cities in search of housing. The Giza Plateau, once far from urban sprawl, now lies almost in the shadow of modern apartment buildings. Nearby factories and old vehicles spew forth noxious clouds of particulate-laden exhaust, which becomes corrosive when dissolved by rain. Vibrations from traffic produce cracks in the monuments. More serious still is the damage caused by water. An estimated 80% of Cairo's incoming water supply escapes from leaking pipes into the ground. And the aging sewerage system, built 75 years ago to serve a population...
...industry pushed past the $3 billion mark last year. And because the 25-ton annual demand exceeds manufacturing capacity, there has been a scramble to increase production. Here in the heartland of the meth outlaws, a territory beginning roughly at the southerly edges of the great Los Angeles metropolitan sprawl, anarchy has replaced the discipline of a monopoly maintained for decades under the mailed fist of the renegade motorcycle clubs. Southern California, a nose ahead of Texas, remains the manufacturing capital of the country, with scores, if not hundreds, of clandestine operations scattered south from Orange County to San Diego...
...firm's consulting business, along with a decline in U.S. advertising spending. But many investors suspect that the British firm's overall strategy of pell-mell growth, including the takeover of the Ted Bates Worldwide agency for $450 million in 1986, may have created an unmanageable corporate sprawl. After many of Saatchi & Saatchi's takeovers, the acquired firms have lost both executives and clients. Last week's announcement suggests that for Saatchi & Saatchi, building an empire was easier than ruling...
ROBERT ADAMS: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AMERICAN WEST, Philadelphia Museum of Art. A tribute to the master photographer of an imperiled landscape, in which nature's beauty is elbowed aside by parking lots, trash and suburban sprawl. Through April...
ROBERT ADAMS: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AMERICAN WEST, Philadelphia Museum of Art. A tribute to the master photographer of the imperiled landscape. In the remarkable pictures that Adams has been making since the mid-1960s, nature's stubborn beauty is forever being elbowed aside by parking lots, trash and suburban sprawl. Through April...