Word: influx
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While conditions improved for more than half a million ethnic Albanians who had managed to flee Kosovo since the air war began, the states to which they fled were convulsed. Inside Macedonia and Montenegro, officials struggled to hold together governments stunned by the economic and social costs of the influx. Meanwhile, relief organizations scrambled to build tent cities, and NATO diverted transport planes from the war effort to rush in food, which the refugees were consuming at the rate of about 250 tons a day. About 120,000 people were to be convoyed or flown out of the Balkans...
...have been doing. In the last several years, citizens in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Washington and Oregon have all passed campaign-finance initiatives. Two more states, Arizona and Massachusetts, passed similar laws during the 1998 elections. These states run the ideological gamut, but their voters all understand one thing: The massive influx of money into the political process is dangerous to our 200-year-old ideal of democracy...
...years, from $64,000 to $159,900. Once ranked by the National Association of Home Builders as among the most affordable U.S. cities for housing, Portland is now the third most expensive, just a bit cheaper than San Francisco. One reason is that the growth limits helped attract an influx of new residents, who bid up costs. But another is that developers can't build on cheaper acreage farther from town. And though the growth boundary has been widened, local builders complain that the added acreage falls well short of what a growing population needs...
Without the A.D., Owl and Phoenix as socialalternatives, the other clubs will have to handlemore students than ever before. Even if the clubsare able to deal with their usual crowds, theextra influx could prove disastrous, Heller says...
There has also been an influx of local characters, oddballs from all around Cambridge who are attracted to the Kong's low-key atmosphere. Paul describes one of his favorites: "Well, there's Marc, the real little guy who always hangs out behind the Lethal Enforcer machine. I think he did too much acid back in the '60s. Supposedly he was really smart, but I guess he fried his brain." As far as Paul is concerned, freaks of nature will always be welcome at the Kong. He lays out his philosophy: "As far as I'm concerned...