Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shopping weekend. It picked up speed soon after Britain's devaluation, which cut sterling prices by 14.3% in terms of francs, marks, dollars and other major currencies-enough to reduce a $32 coat to $27. By last week, with the added lure of January sales, the influx of foreign shoppers to London's West End stores had swelled to a torrent...
...influx of U.S. companies has been tapering off since last year, when American Cyanamid discovered it was simpler to raise money through a Delaware holding company, which does not have to withhold tax if 80% of its business is done outside the U.S. But European firms are more than taking up the slack. Germany's AEG, Thyssen, Siemens and Hoechst, for example, have moved in to escape the 25% withholding tax at home on interest paid to foreign holders of German bonds. The roster has grown to 32 companies, almost all in the big leagues...
...Arthur Younger, a conservative Republican, is in a state of demographic flux. Though the sunny "peninsula," as San Mateo County is called, is populated largely by well-to-do, conservative-leaning commuters to San Francisco, nearby Stanford University exerts a liberalizing influence, and subdivisions have attracted a big influx of blue-collar workers...
Friedman is very optimistic about the team's prospects. Harvard could "become the best team in the East" in a few years he said, citing an influx of "fantastic" freshman skiers. Ginny Storrs, Cliffie captain, was equally enthusiastic about her team and its chances to capture the Women's Intercollegiate Ski Conference crown for the third consecutive year...
There has not always been a truce between the parties. The Conservatives' Immigration Control Act of 1962 sparked a vitriolic debate in all Commonwealth nations. It was the first measure designed to curb the influx of colored immigrants from the Commonwealth countries into Britain, and the Labor party vehemently accused the Tories of racism, putting petty self-interest over and above the special bond between mother country and Commonwealth, and maliciously slamming the ceiling on any Commonwealth subject who wanted to better his economic situation by emigrating...