Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than $10 billion worth of projects has been approved since 1967. Yet, with an annual per capita income of only $185, Indonesia's 140 million people rank among the world's poorest. Roughly 6 million people are unemployed. The influx of foreign funds was led by an oil boom that has made Indonesia, with a daily output of 1.7 million bbl., Asia's only main exporter of crude. Corruption and haphazard government policies, however, have slowed further oil exploration to a crawl, and Indonesia may lose its exporting position within a decade...
Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci declared an "all out war on crime" because of the alleged influx of prostitutes and pimps into the Central Square area at last night's city council meeting...
...then it's a sin." Nor does he complain about the competition of formerly all-white colleges for star black athletes. Says Jones: "They can get all the boys they want, but many were not gotten at all before." For Grambling, integration has meant an influx of white teachers, now about 30% of the faculty, but few white students (only about...
...than one-third, cut the dog office from three men to one, pushed for the completion of the court house and closed the costly Middlesex County Training School, an institution for truant youths. Ralph says that McLaughlin's budget claims are "at very best a half truth" because the influx of federal revenue sharing funds in recent years has altered the county budget without any help from the commissioners. He resents the spendthrift tag. While county assessments have climbed 97 percent in the four years before his election, they have risen just 5 per cent in the four years since...
...coup provided the Communists with their biggest influx of recruits in a decade: an estimated 600 to 1,000 student leftists who fled Bangkok and began training in "liberated" zones and in neighboring Laos. It also polarized Thai politics. "Before the coup," says one Thai counterinsurgency expert, "there were four channels open to anyone with a complaint: Parliament, the newspapers, government officials and the Communists. Now there are only two: the government or the guerrillas...