Word: exoduses
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...speakers are now beginning to give up. South Africa last year suffered a net loss in immigration, with 6,717 more departing than arriving. About 5,000 were highly trained professional and managerial people. Some 5,500 of the emigrants went to Britain and 4,000 to Australia. This exodus of many of the best and brightest is something that South Africa can ill afford...
This week in millions of households around the world Jews are celebrating the Passover holiday. Following an ancient ritual, after sundown on Monday evening they sit down at the Seder table to retell the story of the Jewish exodus from slavery in Egypt. They recall their ancestors' tears with salt water and bitter herbs and eat a sweet concoction of nuts, apple and wine to commemorate the mortar with which slaves once cemented bricks. The anguish of captivity is recounted in the text of the Haggadah, and the joy of freedom celebrated with song...
...governors have refused, saying there is no way to guarantee the safe exodus of residents in the cases of Shoreham and Seabrook...
...Exxon Exodus...
Increasingly overburdened with committee work and a heavy student counseling load, minority professors wonder whether law schools are as committed minorities as they once were. Add to that an alarming exodus of minority lawyers from the teaching profession, and many law professors say they find themselves increasingly discouraged and disappointed with their profession...