Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since April he has surprised liberals and social scientists by saying that school desegregation has caused whites to flee to the suburbs...
However, Coleman, professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, said last night on a televised news program that busing is too "blunt an instrument" because it encourages whites to flee from the cities and move to predominantly white suburbs...
...where high volume makes it easier to turn a profit, and leave to the Postal Service the rural, low-population areas, which are gross money losers. The prospect would be a never-ending spiral of higher rates, lower volume and deteriorating service. As rates went up, more customers would flee, and rates would have to go up again...
...before the communists reached it and to drive the populace into the cities. People were also going to the cities because they feared being separated from their families. But I will say that most of the soldiers in the Saigon regime chose to surrender to the PRG, rather than flee as refugees. Half of the armed forces in the South are still in Vietnam with their families and will try to adapt to a communist way of life...
...situation was desperate because so many wanted to get out. Many people who should have gotten out didn't. I heard of someone who had worked for the CIA for ten years and he couldn't get out, but prostitutes and other people who didn't have to flee to save their lives got out because they knew the right people...