Word: swarmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When cops gather at a press conference to announce the arrest of Wall Street crooks, the swarm of officials on the podium is enough to violate the fire code. In the 1980s, then U.S. Attorney (and now New York City mayor) Rudolph Giuliani would lead an entourage befitting a heavyweight boxing champ...
With the start of the school year, we find ourselves amid a swarm of students in the depths of the Science Center or Sever Hall. No longer are we distinct individuals. Instead, suddenly we are all one mass of faceless creatures in whose direction professors direct their words. From the direction of the podium or even among the very mass, we blend. In short, we are anonymous...
...community spirit of the event was nearly overwhelmed by the preponderance of local government representatives, around whom hovered a modest swarm of TV news cameras...
...July 19, 44 college and university presidents will swarm in for the GSE's seventh annual Harvard Seminar for New Presidents...
Instead, the major carriers can see something potentially distressing: a swarm of alien aircraft invading the domestic market. These planes belong to the latest wave of upstart airlines hoping to succeed where so many predecessors--161 in the 18 years since deregulation--have plowed under. During that time, the economics of the industry has been tossed around like so much paper in jetwash. And airfares have followed suit. Prices have taken off in "fortress" markets like Denver, where one or two majors have pounded competitors; in California, where the terminals are more crowded, the fares have sunk low enough...