Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regardless of the reasons, the way has been opened for an influx of young players. This is the first year that freshmen are eligible to play varsity lacrosse in the Ivy League, and Scalise is taking full advantage of that rule change...
...resell it at prices even higher than those of the Thieu regime. Last September, however, the PRG issued an economic statement that outlawed such hoarding and temporarily froze private assets over 100,000 piastres. Since then, it seems to have gained control over the speculation that accompanied the influx of rice from the north...
...have for the witnessess, Johnnie?" "Well, for the ladies, from Speidel, the latest in watch-bands...") The refugees were then taken in by upholstered Georgetown matrons, shown off at dinner parties and fed Minute Rice. To research that series, Trudeau not only followed press accounts of the refugee influx, but also read the staff report to Edward M. Kennedy's Senate Subcommittee on Refugees and Escapees. "He does his homework," says Playboy Cartoon Editor Michelle Urry. "Garry's on of the few intellectuals in the business...
...recent years, the nation's labor force has been swollen by a vast influx of new people looking for work. Between 1968 and 1974, the labor force grew by 11 million people, or 2 million more than the Government's Bureau of Labor Statistics had projected. (The labor force now totals 93.4 million-so that each percentage point of the unemployment rate stands for 934,000 people who want jobs and cannot get them.) Many of the new entrants are blacks; many more are women and teenagers, some of whom are seeking to earn second incomes in families...
...stable class structure, and no traditions by which people's actions can be judged, a sort of moral vacuum results and the only principle held inviolable is profit. The population of the Rim has doubled since World War II, from 40 million to 80 million, primarily from an influx of what Sale terms "the discontented classes." Sale advances Nathaniel West's argument in The Day of the Locust: people go west out of frustration, because they are unhappy with their small town existence and hope that in the sunshine of Florida or California they will find the good life that...