1.   But on overcrowded city sidewalks, some passers-by say sandwich men are a nuisance.

2.   There were opportunities to participate in community life not available in overcrowded big cities.

3.   Throughout Japan, a shortage of land, increasing affluence and overcrowded cities have combined to create an unprecedented waste mountain.

4.   Unemployment and underemployment have emerged as problems, along with a migration of poor people to the already overcrowded cities.

5.   Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto also called on world leaders to improve rural areas as a way to stop mass migration to already overcrowded cities.

6.   Dengue is most prevalent in developing countries where overcrowded cities are crushed by unplanned growth and migration from poor rural areas.

7.   Dengue, transmitted by mosquitoes that breed in stagnant water, can spread quickly in overcrowded cities.

8.   In Beijing they have also pressed the already overcrowded city with a heavier demand on water, electricity and other services, it said.

9.   Most Chinese couples are allowed only one child in an attempt to reduce the strain of population growth on farmland, water supplies and overcrowded cities.

10.   The refugees have poured into overcrowded provincial cities controlled by the government as UNITA has overrun much of the countryside.