Word: influx
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...process, we seem to be hoping that by encouraging the participation of students on work-study who might not be able to afford volunteering, more elementary school-aged children will learn to read. This is not very realistic; we don't think the program will lead to a massive influx of new volunteers because neither PBHA nor HAND is currently able to handle such an expansion...
Last year's results suggest the gap is widening, indicating that something more than fees is the problem. Ironically, no one seems to pin it on the influx of thirtysomething fund managers hired as part of the industry's explosive growth. "In a bull market like this, youth is an asset," argues Michael Lipper, president of Lipper Analytical. The young have no recollection of, and thus no fear of, a declining market. That translates into being fully invested and having got the most out of stocks during this exceptional rally...
...skating is another winter fun favorite, and the Cambridge city ice rinks are preparing for the influx of vacationing students...
...epic influx of refugees was made up mostly of Hutu civilians who fled Rwanda in 1994, fearing reprisal for the genocide deaths of 800,000 Tutsi at the hands of the Hutu-led government. For two years the Hutu had huddled in Zairean camps, prevented from returning by Hutu militia who controlled them through savage intimidation. When Tutsi-led Zairean rebels routed the Hutu tormentors two weeks ago, the refugees fled home. In their midst, however, were thousands--perhaps even tens of thousands--of the extremists who had organized and taken part in the butchery of 1994. Some of those...
...began to scratch below the surface, they discovered there was a reason to move to Nevada: silver. Miners came in the mid-1800s, and visions of a different kind of silver drew even more speculators when casinos began to open in the 1960s. Nevada is traditionally Democratic, but an influx of newcomers in the 1980s has given Republicans a foothold here. But however inhospitable the Sagebrush State may be to farmers (and moderates), Democrats see the Second District's open seat as fertile ground...