Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more painful embarrassments. In McCall's eight years in office, Oregon adopted one of the nation's first comprehensive land-use plans, banned nonreturnable beverage containers, placed its entire 300-mile shore line in state ownership to protect it from developers and publicly discouraged the influx of new residents and even tourists. It also summarily closed a polluting paper-pulp plant and forced other firms to comply with tough environmental standards...
...party members. This in effect gives Speaker Albert an appointive power not held by a House leader since it was carved away from the autocratic Speaker "Uncle Joe" Cannon in 1910. The caucus voted to increase Mills' committee to 37 members, including 25 Democrats, and thus permit an influx of younger, more liberal Representatives. As Mills went into a hospital, Albert made it clear that the Steering Committee will not even permit Mills to retain his chairmanship...
Almost weekly the overpopulated death row at Central Prison in Raleigh grows more crowded. Nine more men arrived last month, raising the total of those awaiting asphyxiation in the gas chamber to 62 men. Two women facing execution are confined in another Raleigh prison. The rapid influx has long since filled the 42 dingy cells in Central's F-block that were originally designated death row, and some inmates are being held in other cell blocks. Says Warden Sam Garrison: "If this keeps up, we will have to start doubling up the men in the cells...
...washed away in a flood they refused to accept state aid in rebuilding it, so Chairman Mao said, "In agriculture we learn from Tachai," and it became the model commune. Its weatherbeaten vice president said it gets 2000 visitors a day, mostly sent by other communes. He insisted the influx didn't affect the commune much. He also said that even the weather was welcoming us--it hadn't rained in six months, and the night before the commune had been worrying about drought. By the time we got there rain had hit the commune and frogs were croaking...
Another reason for the decline of cottage distilleries is the influx of legitimate industry into the South, offering an economic alternative to young men who might formerly have opted for the still life. Also, Southerners' tastes have changed. George R. ("Bob") Powell, special agent in charge of the Division of Alcohol, Tax and Firearms station in Wilkesboro, N.C., observes: "You'll notice that even poor people like good liquor these days." Another explanation comes from a seventyish great-grandmother who operates a general store in North Carolina's moonshine capital of Wilkes County: "All these kids want...