The economy has longstanding weaknesses, such as poor skills and a congested transport system.
The Lexington Avenue line, the only Eastside subway train, has long been the system's most congested. It carries about 30% of all New York's straphangers.
Public health professionals have warned of flu outbreaks in the congested shelters — often little more than school gyms with no heating or running water.
His throat congested with phlegm.
And the roads are just going to get more congested.
In America alone, congested roads cost billions of dollars a year in lost work hours and wasted fuel.
No doubt it will be able to tell you that it will be rather pricey for you to take a certain road because it is already congested, and suggest an alternative.
Beijing has been described as the world's most congested city.
Sanya's beach culture originated at Dadonghai, a congested strip of sand near the city center.
This may be done innocently, not realizing what is lost; or with an eye to reclaiming space in a congested building, a sacrifice demanded of the team in exchange for the open space they need.
Cities can be great levelers: congested streets and immobile trains hit rich and poor alike.
If they are suffering with sinus congestion and take a decongestant, they will feel congested again if the drug is withdrawn.
His face was congested with anger as the argument grew more heated.
Department stores are often congested before Christmas.
Two-thirds of people with asthma tell us that traffic fumes make their asthma worse and 42 per cent find that traffic fumes discourage them from walking or shopping in congested areas.
Our skies are the most congested in the world.
Commuting can be a miserable chore, and city planners could only expect it to get worse as cities became more congested.
Abu Dhabi is trying to present itself as a more cultured, less congested alternative to neighbouring Dubai, and is building a huge Guggenheim museum.
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