Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nigeria, a new union representing some 20,000 professionals has asked the government for protection against unfair competition from amateurs. The union speaks for those "ladies of the twilight" whose business has been hurt lately by some 10,000 part-time prostitutes. Inflation has caused the influx of amateurs; as a result of soaring prices (in both cash and cattle) for brides, Nigerian men are delaying marriage, and girls who might otherwise have been supported by husbands now take to the streets when they need money. Although prostitution is illegal in Nigeria, leaders of the union have hired a lawyer...
SOUTH JERSEY SUBURBS, which I'm familiar with, are different from the ones John Cheever writes about. Where I come from, the landscape is already second-generation neon, and the politics are set by whether the last influx from Philadelphia was middle-or upper-class. There are no pretensions of communality, no historic town squares now hidden: high-rise apartments take their proud and random places next to split-level housing developments and an occasional patch of barren land. Over the last eight years, a "right side of the tracks" has developed, established by the construction of "wooded estates...
Residents have mixed feelings about this boost to their economy. San Diego is one of the fastest-growing regions in California, and thus there is a severe housing shortage; 1,000 Navy families are already on the waiting list. The city does not know how it will accommodate the influx of newcomers-or educate their children. Because of the cutbacks in impact aid for schools serving federal installations, the San Diego school system has been trimmed to $4,000,000 (from an anticipated $6,000,000) in federal funds this year...
Harvard had a tremendous load of talent in its freshman crew last season and the sophomores ended up winning a total of six seats in the varsity and J.V. boats. That influx of talent, plus the experienced core of varsity returnees, makes the Crimson a powerful contender for the Sprint victory which has eluded it for the past two years...
...past two decades there has grown up a new view of universities as a "vital national resource." Correspondingly, there has been a tremendous influx of Federal aid which, when now withdrawn, threatens basic research and teaching programs...