Word: exoduses
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...plight of the Roman Catholic Church with its exodus of priests and communicants points up a problem which is not unique to the Catholic Church, but one it shares with other churches in which there is often too much concern with dogma and ritual rather than with the higher aims and values of practically all religions...
...country has actually shown a small decline, and the northern provinces sometimes look as if they had been visited by a plague. Once lively villages are now ghost towns, while others are inhabited only by the old and the young. Recent government restrictions on emigration have scarcely slowed the exodus, and those who want to leave simply slip across the border at night. "We are at the bottom of any economic indicator you want to take," laments Francisco Pinto Balsemào, editor of the weekly Expresso. "Our only competitor is Albania. Even the East European countries have passed...
...troops seemed at ease and relaxed, despite the occasional incoming rounds of artillery. Reinforcing their confidence was the arrival at the front of supplies airlifted to Israel from America. The roads were full of trucks with English markings. A further encouraging sign to the troops was the exodus of many senior commanders from a permanent command post in the middle of the Sinai. When we asked where these officers had gone, we were told with a wink that they were "far forward." We assumed that meant on the Egyptian side of the canal...
...inhabitants leave the community after high school--some to join the armed services for a few years, and others just to find jobs. The fishing industry, which employs most of the work force here, is seeing hard times these days, and cannot attract young manpower. The slow, but constant, exodus from Lubec goes...
...guerrillas' priority targets are Soviet Jews emigrating to Israel at the rate of 30,000 a year. Twice this year fedayeen groups set out to attack Schönau Castle in Vienna where the refugees, who travel from Russia to Austria by train, are quartered midway in their exodus. Both times the attackers were spotted beforehand and arrested. Two months ago, another terrorist band killed four innocent travelers at Athens airport when it confused a TWA plane loading for New York with another TWA plane boarding passengers for Israel...