Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presence most directly when paying his rent--over 80 per cent of the city's residents are tenants. Rent levels in the Boston area are the highest in the country, and Cambridge rents are the highest in Boston. The tremendous demand for housing in the area, caused by the influx of young people attracted to a university community, has made Cambridge a haven for real estate speculators...
Ever since the Kennedy Corporation unveiled its library plans last May, community groups have been up in arms to stop the predicted influx of tourists and traffic. Perhaps the final blow to any possible community-library truce came in February when the General Services Administration hired C.E. Maguire Inc. to conduct the $184,000 consulting job which is supposed to finally evaluate the true merits of the library's placement on the 12-acre MBTA site...
...Faces of 1974. That's the way the Cornell prospectus bills its varsity baseball team this year. But despite the influx of new personnel, a current 6-12 record belies the claim that things have really changed for Big Red hardball...
...abundant, demand is not likely to grow much-in part because the Arabs have taught the world the need for energy conservation. in part because at present exorbitant prices, roughly $11 per bbl. for crude, the world's consumers simply cannot afford to buy much more. Any big influx of Arab oil into world markets would almost inevitably produce a temporary oversupply that could crack prices...
...long as China exists as a socialist state in a mainly capitalist world, any foreign influence can be damaging. If Western classical music in China leads to a more general influx of capitalist art and culture, the effects of the Revolution may begin to reverse themselves. The attack on Western music has been combined with a denunciation of Confucius and with militant policy statements condemning backsliding in collective agriculture and on relations between soldiers and civilians. Some sort of political confrontation is taking place; one of the few details now known is that Teng Hsiaoping, a capable economic administrator...