Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went by on its way down the jerky, rumbling assembly line as Dodge Main's last car. As it passed, small groups of instrument fitters, engine installers and wheel mounters cleaned up quietly and left. When the line finally came to a halt, nothing dramatic followed, no mass exodus, not even a final silence. Plant officials gathered around the blue Aspen for photographs, then drifted to the windows overlooking the Bismarck Gate to watch television crews clustered around departing workers, striving to capture their final mood-solemnity, or fear, or anger...
Thursday's meeting was also marked by a dramatic exodus when the time came for people to sign up for canvassing...