Word: influx
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent influx of children of the 80s got you reminscing about the days when Cindy Lauper was an American icon and "Smurfs on Ice" was the ultimate in Saturday night entertainment? Slip into your leg warmers and party at the Leverett 80s Dance. 9 p.m., Leverett Dining Hall...
...community. But many other landings go undetected. Police estimate there are 300 gang-run safe houses where illegals live as they prepare to enter the workplace. New York City's Fujian association estimates there are 500,000 illegals from the province in the U.S.; the CIA puts the undocumented influx at 100,000 a year. (In comparison, the 1990 U.S. Census estimates there are 2.3 million American residents of Chinese origin.) What is certain is that for reasons both global and local, the illegals, their transporters and their employers are forgoing the boomtowns of the West Coast and homing...
...towns from Anchorage, Alaska, to Billings, Montana, kids who have grown up watching TV shows centered on urban culture and fashion emulate them as best they can while overlooking the fact that the places they live are essentially very different from those they see portrayed on TV. This influx of popular culture only leads to further uniformity...
...outbreak of violence is already having repercussions outside Albania's borders. Italy and Greece fear the turmoil will create a new influx of refugees, while NATO is concerned over the effect on its efforts to stabilize the conflict between ethnic Albanians and the Serb authorities in neighboring Kosovo. "The last thing the West needs now is for Albania to slip further into chaos, just as [the West's] hard-hearted policy in Kosovo appears to be containing that situation," says Calabresi. But there's little cause for optimism when opposition politics is conducted with machine guns and tanks...
Will you find your true self, alone with a back-pack on the highways and byways of the world? Maybe. Free from the constant influx of ideas that ooze around our red brick homes we can think about ourselves and be pleasantly self centered without constant distraction...