Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were protesting for their "rights," another housing dispute, centered around over-crowding in Houses, was also building quickly. Secretaries in four Harvard Houses--Quincy, Mather, Leverett and Winthrop--protested vehemently to The Crimson that overcrowding would reach serious levels in their Houses next year as the result of the influx of unprecedented numbers of sophomores...
This is indeed what Harvard has done: it has committed itself to increasing by 300 the size of the College without adequately preparing for the effects of the influx of additional undergraduates. The new dorm will compensate for some of the increase but not all. Plans for construction at Radcliffe or a 65-70 student addition to Kirkland House are meaningless until Harvard or Radcliffe receive sufficient funding to complete the construction...
...college staffs and at Harvard, where there is only one more House but a much larger student body, freshmen could swamp the House staffs. Either the freshmen dean's office will be maintained or Harvard must build additional Houses or increase considerably House staffs to deal with the influx of freshmen...
...Trade. Brezhnev's whirl wind courtship of Bonn had a plain purpose. He was after a massive influx of West German capital and technological assistance into the Soviet economy But Bonn was taken aback by the Soviet leader's unrealistic economic expecta tions and his tendency to wave away German political questions in order to dwell on industrial projects. German leaders said Brezhnev seemed to have little awareness of West Germany's role and economic obligations in the EEC. After a long session with West German businessmen, in which Brezhnev spoke lengthily about the opportunities for huge...
...proposed hotel, ranging in height from 6 to 15 stories and timed to capitalize on the tourist influx accompanying the Kennedy Library's completion, is not objectionable in and of itself, but because it would violate the proposed new Riverfront zone...