Word: exoduses
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...mass exodus is no joke. In the past, the trickle of legal refugees primarily involved senior citizens, which was East Germany's way of palming off some of its pension burden on the capitalist West. But the loss of so many young professionals presents East Germany with the prospect of a serious brain drain...
...regime has switched tactics. Reversing years of heavy restriction on citizens' travel, the authorities in Sofia agreed to issue passports and exit visas to ethnic Turks with the aim of limiting further clashes by reducing the size of the Turkish minority, and the mass exodus began. By last week 238,000 had crossed the border. Officials in Ankara believe the total could reach...
...latest book, City, Whyte continues to challenge orthodox urban planning. For one thing, he likes free-floating city congestion. He maintains that gentrification gets a bum rap and that the corporate exodus to the suburbs is stupid. He advocates narrower streets for cars and wider sidewalks for people. Forget exits, he says, it's time to make better doors. The revolving ones at the bottom of most office towers may save energy, but they are hopelessly inefficient at moving people. Cram as many stores as possible along the streets to bring them alive. Do away with skywalks, abolish sunken plazas...
...other hand, Whyte contends, the heralded corporate exodus to the suburbs has produced minimal choice. "The new suburban headquarters," he declares, "say, 'By God, if those bastards from New York come and try to storm our ramparts, we'll pour boiling water on them.' " He claims these suburban offices are such lonely places that consultants have to be imported as visitors. "One guy said, 'You've missed an important point. It is true no one comes out to see us. But when we go into town, we're much more careful, and we schedule ourselves much more efficiently than otherwise...
...could grant to several million people the right to come and live in Britain." Instead, while planning to admit perhaps 100,000 Hong Kong Chinese, London offered to enlist the U.S., Canada and Australia in a last- resort "lifeboat" plan to absorb others in the event of a mass exodus. In the meantime, Britain would hasten the implementation of self-rule and press Beijing for fresh assurances that Chinese troops would stay out of Hong Kong. The colony's Chinese were not appeased. Storming out of the hall where the Foreign Secretary delivered his speech, eight prominent local officials shouted...