Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Professor Said also knows very well that the free influx of Arabs to Palestine in those years was not motivated by any wish to return to a homeland, as in the case of the Jews, but for one reason only: to get jobs and raise their standard of living, thanks to the Jewish return to Palestine. Professor Said also says that "When Israel came into being in 1948, Jews owned only 6 per cent of the land, Arabs the rest...
...some advantages that help it maintain its allegiance to democracy. For one thing, political divisions are not sharp in a country that has achieved broad literacy (90%) and an average per capita income ($ 1,100) that is the highest in Central America. Costa Rica also benefits from a productive influx of European immigrants and a vigorous middle class...
...industry it is today. Immediately after World War II high school and college enrollments began to increase rapidly. At first returning soldiers swelled the number of students; later an expanding population fueled the growth in demand for education. General Education was in part intended to help absorb the new influx of students coming from a more varied educational background. But the same developments that persuaded the Faculty to create General Education also helped produce the specialization that is now destroying...
...such as New York, Florida and Southern California, is bilingual and bicultural: the programs encourage native-born Americans to achieve fluency in a foreign language even as their counterparts are learning English. In Miami's Coral Way Elementary School, which inaugurated the bicultural method to cope with the huge influx of refugees from Cuba in 1963, all students study for half a day in Spanish and for the other half in English...
However, New Orleans still has some of the best restaurants in the U.S., and some elegant hotels outside the dome area (most notably, the Pont-chartrain), which theoretically can only get better with the influx of well-heeled visitors that Superdome events are attracting...