Word: flocks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington is a city of midlife compromises. Bright-eyed young men and women flock to the capital, as they have since the New Deal, not because they want to make money but because they want to act on their political beliefs. They enter government; they master a specialty; they amass a Rolodex. Then maybe their party loses power or they find themselves lusting after a BMW on a bureaucrat's salary. Suddenly the former idealists are in the private sector, bartering what they learned in government in their new roles as lawyers, lobbyists, public relations consultants...
Despite the assertion that a women's center would welcome everyone, it is highly unlikely that those oblivious to women's issues would flock to it. A women's center would really serve as a special interest resource with very little (positive) influence on the Harvard community as a whole...
...with many supposed Harvard guts, the myth of easy "Sex" persists. Hundreds of students flock to "Sex" each year expecting nothing more than a collection of racy tidbits of sexual knowledge...
...Egypt and Israel have risen to 20%, while those for tours to Turkey have risen to 10%. Big British tour operators like Thomson Holidays report the same traveler reluctance: Thomson bookings to Israel, for example, are down 50% from the same period last year. British sun seekers who traditionally flock to beaches in Cyprus or Turkey have also begun shopping around for other roosts. French-owned Club Mediterranee reports that future bookings for villages in Turkey, Egypt and Israel have fallen significantly. So concerned is the Israeli government that the Tourism Ministry recently injected an additional $235,000 into...
...stations in the U.S. has dropped from just over 190,000 in 1974 to about 110,000. Representatives of Amoco and BP of America defended the so- called pack pricing of gasoline. If his company charged less than the others, explained Amoco spokesman Mike Thompson, customers would flock to Amoco stations and buy all their gasoline. Some stations might even run out of gas, he contended...