Word: exoduses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard students are again packing their bags. Venturing forth from the classrooms of Cambridge, they will disperse across the globe to study, volunteer, intern, work, and research, gaining valuable knowledge of the world beyond America’s shores. But for some, the most notable aspect of this exodus is where these student will not be going...
Jennings said that this move was more a part of normal “academic mobility,” and “not the beginning of a mass exodus...
...turned into a high-demand fashion business. She eventually created a line of dresses, skirts, jackets and T shirts, but she couldn't find anyone in New York to hand render her designs. So she went back to Florence, Alabama, a small town that was struggling because of the exodus of textile-industry jobs. There she returned to a generation that had grown up learning to quilt...
...turned into a high-demand fashion business. She eventually created a line of dresses, skirts, jackets and T shirts, but she couldn't find anyone in New York to hand render her designs. So she went back to Florence, Alabama, a small town that was struggling because of the exodus of textile-industry jobs. There she returned to a generation that had grown up learning to quilt and sew. Since taking her business home, Chanin has helped boost the local economy. About 200 contract employees now make each piece by hand. "One dress took 16 women three weeks to make...
...massive exodus from Zimbabwe is both symptom and cause of the country's decline. Beset by drought and food shortages, runaway inflation and 80% unemployment, Zimbabwe's economy is just two-thirds the size it was in 1999. The country's best and brightest - medics, accountants, teachers, engineers and other skilled workers - are leaving in droves. The U.S. State Department says that 1,200 doctors trained in Zimbabwe in the 1990s, but by 2001, only 360 remained; some 18,000 nurses departed, too. The situation is now even worse. "It's no longer just a brain drain; it's much...