Word: exoduses
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...warfare between government troops and rebels entered its fourth week, a shaky cease-fire collapsed, and savage fighting erupted again in the capital, Kigali. In what U.N. workers described as the biggest and fastest exodus they had ever seen, more than 250,000 people poured into neighboring Tanzania. By late Friday, lines at the border stretched for five miles. In New York City U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali urged the Security Council to reconsider its decision to withdraw most of its forces and asked that peacekeepers be permitted to use force to prevent further massacres similar to those...
...lately, Professor of Astronomy and theHistory of Science Owen J. Gingerich, who teachesScience B-17, says he has noted an exodus ofstudents into the department offerings...
...Venezuela -- warned the military that they would seek a worldwide U.N. embargo on all commercial goods to Haiti unless progress was made to restore Aristide to power by Jan. 15. That threat proved hollow, however. Desperate to get rid of the Haiti problem without touching off a new exodus of refugees, the Clinton Administration has drifted from one version of a peace plan to another, apparently moved more by shifting public pressures than by events. Late last month Vice President Al Gore tried to sell Aristide on a plan that would leave Haiti's most powerful man, Port-au-Prince...
...Passover is when Jews celebrate the exodus from Egypt. We prepare a ritual feast and eat it along with recitation from the Haggadah...
...Globe reported that McMullin had created dissent at the review which has, in turn, triggered an exodus of staff members. The Globe said McMullin's $500,000 salary and her decision to hire high-priced talent to expand HBSP's publishing operations had rankled some staff members...