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...went by on its way down the jerky, rumbling assembly line as Dodge Main's last car. As it passed, small groups of instrument fitters, engine installers and wheel mounters cleaned up quietly and left. When the line finally came to a halt, nothing dramatic followed, no mass exodus, not even a final silence. Plant officials gathered around the blue Aspen for photographs, then drifted to the windows overlooking the Bismarck Gate to watch television crews clustered around departing workers, striving to capture their final mood-solemnity, or fear, or anger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Michigan: Goodbye, Dodge Main | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Thursday's meeting was also marked by a dramatic exodus when the time came for people to sign up for canvassing...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: An Icy Draft Rally | 2/2/1980 | See Source »

...Thai military command announced that the country would move most of the refugees from insecure frontier areas and establish huge camps to hold them. Thai officials contend that many of the Cambodians are actually inside their country already; even so, the 560,000 may be only part of an exodus even larger than the tragic flight of more than 700,000 refugees from Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: Pol Pot's Lifeless Zombies | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...freshmen seem able to pick up whatever leadership slack left by the exodus of upperclassmen from the squad. Walsh noted that the "the freshmen are leaders; they're not waiting for upperclassmen to lead them...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Swimmers Face New Season | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

...unlikely. Charges of nepotism and influence peddling by his government have tarnished the reputation of the bishop, who is thoroughly detested by the guerrilla leaders. But unless those leaders are willing to join with some moderate blacks in forming a new government, the result could be a mass exodus of panicked whites-or a brutal new civil war among tribal factions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE RHODESIA: It Seems Like a Miracle | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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