Word: influx
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current crisis should be eased, at least temporarily, by an influx of medical supplies: the U.S., the European Union and the U.N. have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of gowns, masks, caps, boots and gloves along with medicines and blood plasma-enough, officials hope, to keep the outbreak contained. Emergency health workers are trying to locate people who may have come in contact with a victim and get them back into the hospitals for isolation and observation...
Except for a few dissenters, the citizens of Savannah have welcomed the influx of Midnight enthusiasts. Locals give guided tours of the book's notable sites, like the Bonaventure Cemetery, where the homicide victim used to collect his thoughts and rendezvous with his girlfriend, and Mercer House, the scene of the killing. Predictably, Savannah's merchants offer plenty of Midnight memorabilia like maps and T shirts. A cafa featured in the book now serves "fresh salads from our garden of good and evil...
...With the influx of new immigrant groups, suchas the Haitians, Brazilians and Chinese, familiesare being headed increasingly by working andsingle parents...
...neighborhood barber shop on Cambridge Street, three blocks away from the city's nucleus of technological development, two longtime East Cambridge residents express ambivalence about the influx of new businesses and upscale developments...
...Without the influx of factory jobs, when [parents] died, their kids moved out," Maddalo says...