Word: exoduses
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Alaa's escape is hardly rare. As Iraq's bloodletting crystallizes into a civil war, the stampede of Iraqis fleeing their homes has accelerated so fast that U.N. officials now rank it as the region's biggest exodus in nearly 60 years. Since the war began nearly four years ago, about 2 million Iraqis have left the country and more than 1.6 million others have been displaced inside it, according to U.N. estimates. Tens of thousands more who fled just before the U.S. invasion in 2003 - figuring they would sit out what many anticipated would be a short war - also...
...many Bulgarians do you expect to leave for the West this year? I don't expect a mass dramatic exodus. The U.K. and Ireland are restricting access to workers from Bulgaria and Romania, the other country just admitted to the E.U. They did not restrict access to Poles...
...innate differences" as a representation of the unapologetic Old Boy’s Club mentality that supposedly pervades the campus. If a black president is selected, it would only be in retaliation for Summers’ running Cornel West out of town and setting in motion the steady exodus of many of the remaining big names from our African and African American Studies department. Should our next president have a clear affinity for the humanities, the selection will have been made for no other reason than to smooth the ruffled feathers of professors in an area that Summers seemed less...
...much Iraq's efforts to rebuild itself is compromised by the fact that there's an exodus of the best and brightest? Iraqis are leaving their country in the thousands...
...writes in the letter.But not all members were satisfied with HRG&SP’s move towards a paid system. Soon, the group shattered.“An acrimonious controversy over this policy in 1969 split the group resulting in Paul’s exit and the exodus of many student stalwarts,” Marshall says. “The prevailing faction, led by baritone and talented director David Hammond, proclaimed their independence by producing a non-G&S show, ‘Fledermaus,’ which was a critical success but one which alienated the bulk...