Word: flees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...population in the 1970s, to nearly 60 million people. The ruburbs fall into a demographic shadowland, at the far edge of the suburbs and the near fringe of farm country, where no statistics establish their health. What seems clear is that more and more city dwellers are fleeing to them, though not all of the newcomers can entirely flee the economic pull of metropolises. Most jobs are still in the cities, and ruburbanites orbit them like far-flung asteroids...
...weapon at him, and asked for money, according to Cambridge police reports. The student responded that he had none, but the three still searched him. Answering a passerby's call, two policemen--one by car, one on foot--came to the scene of the crime, prompting the muggers to flee...
...Rule No. 1 is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff. And if you can't fight and you can't flee, flow...
...Afghan air and ground artillery bombardments rained down on guerrilla positions. Earlier, Soviet helicopter gunships and fighter-bombers had pounded Charikar, the capital of Parwan province, and villages in the nearby Kheyr Khaneh Pass, sending thousands of refugees into the capital city of Kabul. Those who were able to flee across the border into Pakistan called last week's attacks the heaviest since the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. After the attacks, Soviet helicopters dropped leaflets saying "Peace...
...makeshift, third-floor apartment inside Seattle's University Baptist Church, a young woman refugee from El Salvador prepares for the birth of her baby, while down the hall a Salvadoran army deserter waits until he can flee to Canada. In Chicago's Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ, a Salvadoran family of six lives above the gym. "If they make us go back," says the father, "we will disappear and die for certain...