Word: flees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flood of homeowners and businesses leaves behind a shell of the previous neighborhood. Property values decline, and schools lose the tax revenue needed to provide even the most basic education. After whites flee, they thwart all attempts to re-integrate neighborhoods through scattered-site housing or school choice proposals...
...During the long siege of Sarajevo, this modern metropolitan area had been a haunt of Serb bands like Vojislav Seselj's White Eagles and Zeljko ("Arkan") Raznatovic's Tigers, who used it as a base for snipers and mortar attacks on the government-held center. Muslims who failed to flee at the start of war in April 1992 found themselves trapped inside the enclave, facing death at the hands of "ethnic cleansers." In short order, the place was left almost entirely to the Serbs...
...peace of the past three months, says Kruno, has been in many ways worse than the war. As the March 19 turnover date approached, thousands of Serbs--either fearful of Muslim reprisals or threatened by Serb hard-liners--began to flee with their belongings and anything else they could take with them. At night, firebugs and looters took over the streets, stripping apartments of everything from TV sets to parquet floors and setting fire to what remained. As in the first year of war, the Oprhal family huddled in their apartment, fearful of going out. Trucks loaded with loot prowled...
...America we hymn a gospel of progress, and the great premise, and promise, of the country is its continual forward motion. One reason so many people migrate to the New World is to escape the hidebound traditions and confining circles of the Old, to flee changeless cycles for a world of never-ending blue. America revels in a child's sense that the future is illimitable, and tomorrow need not bring with it any taint of yesterday...
...will stick. When he returned to the Senate Wednesday morning, dozens of his colleagues were waiting outside his office with ideas about how to beat Bill Clinton. They grabbed him in the halls and cornered him at lunch and handed him notes, so that by afternoon he had to flee the building for a little peace. But if he doesn't always heed would-be advisers, Dole at least remembers what they say: it's a skill he learned long ago, by himself, when he couldn't write things down...