Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Transportation is expensive and parking is almost nonesistent. Traffic has worsened every day since last Thursday when the influx of Democrats began, and it will get worse as the week progresses. People move in droves, pressing close to candidates as they drift from meeting to meeting. Others opt for poolside sun, or just remain in their rooms waiting for each convention session...
...ALLURE of living near Harvard and MIT has drawn large numbers of students and young professionals into Cambridge. The influx of young people who are either affluent or communally-oriented has sent rents sky-rocketing and sent working class families looking for homes elsewhere. Although Cambridge has lost population since 1960, there has been a 45 per cent increase in the number of 20-to-24-year-olds in the past decade. Meanwhile, the median rent has gone from $63 to $119 a month...
Robert Bowyer, head of Cambridge's Department of Planning and Development, worries that the character of the Square may be corrupted by the influx of tourists...
...leaders into believing that we should not invite the world to visit us in 1976." If that is true, the City of Brotherly Love is partly to blame. Black leaders demanded an equal voice in the planning, and lower-middle-class whites staged unpleasant demonstrations, protesting against the possible influx of black laborers and "foreigners...
...prospective influx of the "street people"-estimates range from 5,000 to 100,000, plus 50,000 conventioneers-scares many residents. Memories of the bloody riots at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago have made the graying Miami Beach citizens (median age: 65) more than a little jittery. Fortunately, the coolest heads belong to those most directly involved in keeping the peace. The coolest of all is Police Chief Rocky Pomerance, a big (270 lb.), bright, benign bruiser who preaches that "the police do not have to be an abrasive force." For the moment, at least, Rocky's spirit...