Word: exoduses
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Pettigrew criticized Coleman's research for not considering other factors that might have caused the exodus, such as urban blight and the attractive tax advantages living in the suburbs, and for assuming that urbanization trends will continue as they have in the past...
Generals still in the service are acutely aware that one of their number who retired four years ago actually makes more money than they do. Hence the exodus...
Pretty standard stuff for the man who stands near the head of the richest class of entertainers the world has ever known. But there are some things that are different about Elton John. For one thing, he will not join the exodus of rock stars who are leaving Britain to escape stiff new tax laws. "I can't imagine going to live in Geneva," he says. "There is nothing there but people who've gone to Geneva." He would rather spend time worrying about his new record label, Rocket, which gives its artists much larger than standard royalties...
...American exodus climaxes a month-long anti-U.S. campaign led by Laotian students and youth, tacitly backed by the government's police and almost certainly organized by the Communist-led Pathet Lao. U.S. involvement in Laos had dwindled to a shadow of what it was in the early 1970s, when several thousand American diplomats, military advisers, economic and agricultural experts and intelligence agents literally ran the country and directed the fight by the rightists against the Communists. Still, as last week began, the U.S. community numbered a sizable 1,000 or so. Of these, 340 were government employees...
...black market reflected this mass exodus. Since the Angolan escudo is worth nothing outside Angola (one of Portugal's many exploitations), foreign currency was in great demand by those trying to leave and by the black marketeers who got to the foreigner first. On the day after we arrived, August 24 the highest dollar exchange was 32 escudos--the official rate is 25 to the dollar. But on September 16, the day before we left, the white counter-coup had failed to prevent the independence of Portugal's colony on the east coast of Africa, Mozambique, and one dollar...