Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is one factor that makes Miami different from other U.S. cities: its huge Cuban population. Local black leaders disagree on whether the 20-year influx of Cubans, augmented by the recent flood of new refugees, is a serious source of black frustration or just a handy current issue. There is no doubt, though, that blacks, who now comprise only 15% of Dade County's 1.5 million residents, feel they are treated as "third-class citizens" behind the still dominant non-Latin whites, at 48%, and the Hispanics, at about 37%. The Cubans have taken some jobs that blacks...
...clear from the disparate motives that the flood of refugees is not likely to slow down soon. Cuban officials privately estimate that 250,000 of Cuba's 9.7 million would like to leave the island; others put the figure at 1 million and more. As for the man who started the flood, he apparently has no intention of turning it off. "We don't want them, we don't need them," thundered Castro of the refugees at a May Day rally in Havana last week.. He claimed that he had opened Mariel to teach...
...fueled inflation and the weak dollar to labor strife, excessive regulation, inadequate government-business cooperation and, most of all, slumping productivity brought on by too little investment in research and equipment. Among the most popular suggested solutions: more labor-business-government dialogues and more effort to halt the flood of regulation. The participants favored cuts in business and personal income taxes to spur individual savings and corporate investment, even if it meant that the federal budget would remain in deficit...
...governing it. Says Nobel Laureate Sheldon Glashow: "With the discovery, we are at the root of what matter is made of and what the rules are by which elementary constituents are held together." The Reines theory could also explain why earlier experiments had detected a fraction of the expected flood of neutrinos from the nuclear fires of the sun. This had caused some scientists to offer the chilling thought that the sun is cooling. Reines' explanation: the missing neutrinos may have changed flavor...
Presumably, Castro also decided that the evacuation would turn world attention away from the Peruvian embassy fiasco and focus the spotlight instead on Washington's scramble to cope with the flood of refugees. In this, Castro appeared to be successful. "He sure is clever at making his problem our problem," said one White House aide...