Word: exoduses
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Meanwhile, the exodus of Poles continues. American officials confirmed last week that Andrzej Treumann, the highest ranking Polish banker in the U.S., asked for political asylum during the summer. As North American representative for Poland's Bank Handlowy, Treumann helped negotiate the rescheduling of Warsaw's $27 billion debt to the West...
...that time, word of the massacre had spread and panic swept through the camps. The throngs of refugees who had gathered at Gaza Hospital took off on foot to find shelter farther north. Along with them went 45 patients from the hospital, who fled their beds and joined the exodus. For a time, said a European staffer who remained behind, "it was deadly, deadly silent." Some survivors, meanwhile, later recalled seeing Christian militiamen operating a roadblock near the southern entrance to the camps, while hundreds of Israeli soldiers stood...
Helene von Damm, for several weeks now, has been in search of the great exodus. It is proving elusive. Not a bird or a plane, the great exodus is a phenomenon whose advent is confidently predicted by journalists every two years: the mass departure of political appointees from the Federal Government. Once in a while the journalists are correct. Lack of money, 18-hour days, media prying and policy failures send droves of discouraged reformers back to the family business...
...great-exodus season for the Reagan Administration. Von Damm, who is personnel director for the President, heeded the warnings and prepared lists of possible replacements after the governmental churning. But Von Damm cannot seem to capture a full-bodied great exodus...
Many industrialists insist that if the plan is carried out the exodus of Swedish firms will accelerate. Faced with workers who earn the world's highest wages and a 57% tax on profits, Swedish companies have placed as much as one-quarter of the country's total investments overseas. A European Community survey of 120 European business managers conducted this year named Sweden as a country with one of the worst business climates...