Word: exoduses
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What the veto would do to the Government became a more immediate question. Reagan announced that all "nonessential" Government services would have to stop. The result was capricious. As a midday exodus of some 200,000 federal workers began, the Pentagon lost not a single man-hour of work. The National Zoo in Washington also remained open. But the President's press office stopped functioning, and 262 of 344 people who work for the White House went home. Outsiders trying to express an opinion on the President's action heard a recording that ended, "No one is here...
...shocks of crime, drugs and cultural tensions have already spawned the beginnings of an Anglo exodus from Miami and its environs. Some 95% of election registrations now being canceled by citizens leaving the region come from white voters. Says Jeff Laner, 26, a native of Miami who moved this year to work as a stockbroker in Kansas City: "I was going to be damned if I had to learn a foreign language to get a job where I had lived all my life...
...just 600 yds. off the west coast of northern Scotland. The tests were conducted with Bacillus anthracis, better known as anthrax, which has lethal and well-documented effects on both animals and humans. Anthrax is believed to have caused the fifth plague in Egypt mentioned in the Book of Exodus, and an outbreak of the disease swept through southern Europe in the 17th century, killing thousands. The object of the tests on Gruinard Island was to determine whether anthrax bacilli would survive if dropped and dispersed by bombs...
LECTURE: "New Discoveries in Egyptian and Philistine Cultures: The Period of the Exodus and the Israelite Settlement"; Trude Dothan; Lown Auditorium; Wednesday...
...services are being strained to the breaking point by just trying to take care of law-abiding Marielitos, most of whom are desperately poor. The federal spending cuts are certain to make the situation even worse. Some 16,000 refugee children have flooded Dade County schools since the Mariel exodus, requiring a $32 million addition to the education budget. Welfare rolls have increased by a third. Yet as a consequence of the federal cuts, 139 of the 176 county welfare caseworkers now ministering to the Marielitos will be laid off or transferred. Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital has accumulated...