Word: exoduses
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...School Committee's traditional coldness to offers of help from the Ed School. But the CCA committeemen who have consistently voted for Harvard help are the minority on the Committee now and any slap at the quality of Cambridge schools would be disastrously impolitic. At the same time, the exodus to Belmont and Lexing ton in the last 15 years has been led by professors with school-age children, and the report could not be silent on the education of Faculty children. Still it was equivocal...
...August, frustrated by the School Committee's bussing opposition, two Roxbury mothers organized Operation Exodus, a community organization for bussing black children out of ghetto schools. Exodus soon branched from bussing into tutoring, as it realized no one could bus all of Roxbury's 44,000 victimized children out of their rotting schools...
THERE WERE exceptions. Some Ed School groups formed on-going alliances with community organizations--both Exodus and the New School had Ed School help. But successes like these only whetted Roxbury's appetite, taunting it with missed opportunities. As the Boston ghetto turned to the Ed School it found Harvard visible but aloof...
...panicked exodus of Asians trying to beat the deadline dealt the Kenyan economy a severe blow. Demand has dropped sharply along with heavy capital losses--an average of 5000 pounds follows every Asian family that leaves Kenya...
Riots in the wake of Martin Luther King's murder started a new exodus of business from the ghettos. In Washington, Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati and some other cities, many merchants whose stores were looted, vandalized and burned started pulling out. Most of them say they are leaving for good. "You can't get insurance around here," says Christ Boulahanis, whose hot-dog stand on Chicago's West Roosevelt Road was a total casualty. Near by, William Sheldon, the elderly owner of Sheldon Radio & TV shop, has nothing left after doing business in the same store...