Word: flees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Santa Claus must dread dealing each yuletide with Harvard professors and administrators. His elves probably flee the workshop when mail from these ivory towers comes in. Just to solicit these requests, the big red man has to untangle the University's big red tape. And when the gift lists do emerge from the laboratories and the libraries, they are dominated by intangible, high-browed items...
...surrounding a millionaire's deathbed, several countries have launched efforts to gather the spoils that might flow from Hong Kong's demise. In different ways, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Singapore are all hoping to scoop up some of the estimated $20 billion in capital that could flee Hong Kong before 1997 if the question is not settled...
...face of an unexpected anti-Semitism--such as Cowan's Choate years--does the Jewish heritage begin to beckon as a safer and more honest haven. Cowan's mother often told him to learn a trade as well as a profession so that, if he were forced to flee in a foreign land, he could always support himself without knowing the language. Though Cowan never needed the safeguard, the warning stuck in his mind, controlling the odyssey that followed...
...intimidation itself. Lebanon, after all, has not exactly been hospitable to journalists; in the past decade alone, more than a dozen newsmen have been assassinated there while doing their jobs. In the face of incessant threats, some members of the media in the Middle East have chosen to flee. Others carried on, reporting to the world the dangers they were facing. But in the case of the five American correspondents, it was business as usual. The story was almost never told...
...matter of gentrification also has implications for Boston's racial integration problems. Usually, integration in housing occurs after some minority families move into a previously all-white neighborhood; the whites often then start to flee the area. But in Jamaica Plain, for instance, it's been the white professionals who are moving in, pushing minority residents out. So while that area is well-integrated on paper (roughly) half white, half Black or Hispanic), the rents that have risen as much as 70 percent in three years have pushed the minorities, Blacks in particular, away from the center of the Jamaica...