Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most schools, the influx has been welcome. At the University of Southern California, which has the largest foreign enrollment of four-year institutions, the 3,700 outlanders account for 23% of the student body. Says John Callaghan, executive director for International Students and Scholars: "With the predicted decline in domestic enrollment, the slack has to be picked up somewhere if universities are to survive." At Indiana University, where enrollment dropped by nearly 4% this academic year, 1,498 tuition-paying foreign students at Bloomington contributed $1.1 million of that school's $15 million in tuition revenues...
...hockey and basketball teams, despite the influx of talented freshmen, seem destined to join their football and soccer counterparts in the annals of lousy sports seasons at Harvard. But maybe we can build a dynasty on the fine performances of the Eastern champion ping-pong team...
...challenged the idea that capitalism is the best way to get things done. Of course, this alliance has sprung from the high unemployment among Canadian academics and the high number of college graduates who have been forced, upon graduation, to take dull, mindless jobs or go without work. The influx of these college graduates into the class of people with little control over their jobs has most certainly had a consciousness-raising effect on the Canadian working class in general...
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. China lacks the skilled manpower to handle any sudden influx of high-technology industry. Reason: during the Cultural Revolution, Maoist educators let universities and research institutes languish and emphasized for the masses grassroots schools that combined limited technical training with heavy doses of ideology...
...boom has brought record prosperity to Andorrans, but it has also attracted an unwelcome influx of foreigners eager to cash in. Many native Andorrans feel that their identity is threatened by the 16,000 Spanish and 2,000 French residents of the principality. Attempts to strictly limit immigration and discourage foreign speculators have failed. A law prohibiting Andorrans from selling their land to outsiders has been circumvented by socalled préte-noms (name lenders), who lease their surnames to foreigners for use in property sales...