Word: exoduses
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...immigrants and the industrialists swooped down on Cambridge in the late 19th century--with newcomers quickly filtering into elective office. What followed were rising taxes, cut-rate services, a jailed mayor and a business and industry exodus that pre-dated most of the nation's industrial suburbanization...
...directed disconcertingly at the floor boards. He is also a Virginia landowner with six sons who has no intention of letting them be drafted into the Confederate forces. He argues that war violates the will of God, which suggests that he reads his Bible selectively, ignoring such passages as Exodus 15:3, "The Lord...
...Bible contains relatively few miracles; mostly they accredit individuals through whom God's promises are carried out: patriarchs, prophets, Jesus. Even very conservative Bible experts will now agree that the crossing of the Red Sea in Exodus can be too literally construed. Study shows that the Israelites apparently crossed the Sea of Reeds, a series of shallow lakes that once lay where the Suez Canal now runs. The high wind noted in Exodus could have made the lakes more easily fordable on foot?but not by the Egyptian chariots. None of that, however, really detracts from the immensity...
...nation's wealth but less than 1% of its jobs-into agriculture. Although Venezuela has vast tracts of potentially productive farm land, agriculture has been so mismanaged that the country will have to import $450 million worth of food this year. To curtail a rural exodus that has already concentrated 78% of his 12 million countrymen in the nation's major cities, Pérez has offered incentives to lure people back to the fields. The government promised to assume past debts incurred by small farmers. It also removed price restraints on most agriculture products and established...
...Foreign Minister). Some of Rabin's exploits-including his command of the brigade that lifted the 1948 siege of Jerusalem, and countless raids that he led to liberate detainees who had immigrated illegally-were later attributed by Author Leon Uris to the fictional heroes of his novel Exodus...