Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three doubles tandems left Wellesley bullet-ridden instraight sets. The number one pair, featuring co-captain Katie Dietzler and Beth Craig defeated sisters Julie and Linda Peterson 6-3, 6-3. Earlier this year Dietzler, who has held on to her top doubles spot despite the influx of top singles playing freshmen, teamed with Meyer and made it to the semi-finals of the New England Championships before bowing...
...which makes up 16% of the local population, is particularly resentful. Garth Reeves, publisher of the black Miami Times, warns of black hostility because of competition with Hispanics for low-cost public housing and lower-level service jobs that formerly were a black preserve. Says Reeves: "Before the Cuban influx, blacks had most of the hotel jobs, now they have less than 2%." One reason for this decline is that many jobs now require both English and Spanish, and most blacks do not speak the latter...
Behind the mass influx are some stark economic figures: half of Mexico's 18 million-member labor force is unemployed; a devalued peso has sent prices there spiraling; the country's 3.5% population growth is one of the world's highest. Says Border Patrolman Michael S. Williams: "They're starving to death down there...
This is all barring another influx of amazons in Tretorns, of course. Should Felske be that lucky, we'll probably see some more changes...
...influx of well-to-do foreigners to California in the past two years or so has resulted in the biggest real estate boom in Los Angeles since the invention of the cinematograph. An estimated 20% of all property in the chic Beverly Hills-Brentwood-Bel Air area is now foreign owned. Iranians have nicknamed Loma Vista Drive "Aga Sheik Hadi Avenue," after the street where many lived in Tehran. Says Elaine Young, a Beverly Hills real estate broker who has sold palatial properties to foreigners from many countries: "Southern California has become the world's rich melting...