Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...influx of oil money has aroused suspicion and alarm on U.S. campuses. At M.I.T., the student paper denounced the administration for "selling M.I.T." and predicted that the Iranian nuclear-engineering students would end up making "bombs for the Shah." At Stanford, two dozen Iranian students joined radical American students and marched around the campus with brown paper bags over then-heads-to avoid identification, they said, by the Shah's spies. Their complaint: Stanford's television and telephone hookups would extend the influence of a "repressive regime...
...Marsala, schools were closed, anti-French demonstrations broke out in public squares, and local unions called for a general strike of the area's 20,000 workers. From Marseille to Perpignan near the Spanish border, French growers, meanwhile, set up roadblocks of burning tires to halt the influx of hated Italian vino by truck. Italians threatened to retaliate by stopping yearly imports of 2.8 million gal. of French champagne, plus cereals and meat...
This very elitist existence of the well-born couldn't last. The years following World War I saw an influx of students that forced the University, under President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, to look for a new way of housing undergraduates. And it was approximately 50 years ago that the concept of divying up undergraduates into residential Houses was dangled before Lowell. It was a concept that still persists, and the merits of which are still debated...
...condition of the economy makes all such efforts difficult. Epps envisions "a lobby to support the arts as strong as that which now supports athletics" at Harvard, and it seems likely that only a combination of such strong support and an improvement in the overall economy will stimulate an influx of money to extracurricular art programs and funding for experimental curricular offerings...
While waiting for the hearing to deliver their critique, the community groups have indicated that they are outraged by a report that claims an influx of a million visitors a year will have only minimal effects on the Square. Two major newspapers, the Washington Post and the Boston Globe have condemned the draft statement as absurd...