Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great influx in immigrants began in the '50's, and Britain has compulsory education up to the age of 16. So it is the next few years that will show whether the school system has succeeded in wiping out these initial disadvantages, or whether it is only maintaining them. If the schools fail to integrate the British-born children of immigrants, it will prove that British society as it is now constituted has failed to cope with, and indeed has succeeded in perpetuating, the problem...
...June victory? Israel Premier Levi Eshkol raised the question himself last week-and gave his own answer. Russia, he claimed, has replaced 80% of the heavy weapons-warplanes, tanks and artillery-lost by Egypt during the fighting and has almost completely restocked Syria's prewar arsenal. "This influx of weapons has again upset the balance of power in the Middle East," said Eshkol. "It has made our position more precarious-and made it all the more important that the Western powers permit us to buy the weapons we need to defend ourselves...
Credited for at least part of the influx is Expo 67, a well-publicized reason for visiting the New World. Beyond that, the growing affluence of people in industralized nations has been accompanied by an itch to see where most of the money comes from...
Florida currently has an influx of skilled Cuban refugee doctors who once made Havana an abortion mecca and are now doing the same for Miami, where some 30 abortion mills last year paid off assorted officials and took in an estimated $20 million. But all too many U.S. abortionists are dangerous defrocked doctors-alcoholics, drug addicts, sexual perverts-or worse, bungling amateurs who don't hesitate to finish a sloppy job by tossing clients off tenement roofs or dismembering those who die. Equally sobering are the slum women who cannot afford even amateurs and do it themselves with hatpins...
This unexpected influx created much confusion. The police had been intent on restraining the bystanders before the marchers arrived at the hotel, but suddenly backed off and let them all rush forward...