Word: exoduses
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...moving out. Since 1969, when there were 3,798,000 jobs in the city, 456,000 have been lost. In part, this reflects a national trend of manufacturers escaping the high-cost, crime-ridden inner cities. Even so, New York has done next to nothing to stem the exodus. Says Savas: "City officials look upon business as a convenient cow to be milked." Until recently, the city offered few of the tax breaks or sundry inducements that other places use to attract and keep industry. "New York City has had a totally planless economic development," says Herbert Bienstock...
...time is running out. Rohatyn warned that without federal help, New York may have to default by December. That would ruin the city's credit, force a drastic cutback in services and probably cause an exodus of major corporations. Said he: "The flow of blood would be irreversible...
...scorched Namib coastline, known locally as the Coast of Loneliness. The refugees were the vanguard of an estimated 350,000 people who are trying desperately to escape from Angola. As the vicious civil war among the Portuguese territory's three black independence parties has steadily worsened, the exodus of both blacks and whites has become a rout...
There is no way to assess the merits of these conflicting reports--and if there were instances of brutality and coercion, we condemn them--but the goals of the exodus itself were good, and we support them...
...assumptions may not have been the best, and it was the incomplete reports from Cambodia on the exodus that finally demonstrated the problems of supporting a revolutionary movement of the basis of such assumptions alone...