Word: crackdowns
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Underlying these laws was the belief that preserving America's ethnic mix as it existed in 1920 was politically and culturally desirable. After World War II, the quotas were relaxed only to allow in politically favored groups, such as the 38,000 Hungarians who fled the 1956 Soviet crackdown. Inspired by Lyndon Johnson's Civil Rights Act, Congress in 1965 at last ended the national-origins system and opened America's doors to the Third World...
Homeless people regularly sleep on the grates because they provide warmth. Some homeless have linked what they see as a new Holyoke Center crackdown by police to the October 20 opening of the Shops by Harvard Yard. The new guidelines went into effect in September...
...hand considerably at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Council meeting. The four-day gathering marks the first time the 17 Pacific Rim leaders have ever met as a group as well as the first time an American President has met with a Chinese leader since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. The President hoped to use the conference to encourage the opening of new markets...
...Crackdown in Nigeria
...they may not be. Beer is easy to come by at Yale, despite a college crackdown last year, students say. Many bars and shops do not check students' ages, Yalies report, and it easy to be served at a number of establishments...