Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year's end several major American manufacturers announced price increases averaging 5.5%. Not until the second quarter will it become apparent whether trigger prices will actually curb imports. So far, the knowledge that a new mechanism was in the works has had scant effect on the influx of foreign steel. When the final tally for 1977 is in, imports could account for about 18% of the market, tying the record-high share they held...
...with the Russian and Polish Jews who fled the poverty and anti-Semitism of their homelands. This group in turn absorbed the immigrants who followed them from Europe and Asia with nary an intolerant word. But to this group--by tradition overwhelmingly liberal, Democratic, tolerant--the most recent population influx is a horse of a different color...
...borough's complexion is clearly changing. As poorer people, mostly black and hispanic, move in, the middle class retreats southward or leaves entirely. Racial tensions, long dormant or mild, rise to the surface. To the Jews, this influx of 'schvartzes' (Yiddish for dark-skinned people) represents a clear threat to their middle class lives. Worse still, this "invasion" threatens their basic values. People who played by the rules of the game are apt to react defensively when the rules are changed in midgame. The Jewish middle class sees itself under attack for succeeding, and becoming wealthy, by the economic rules...
...intransigent opposition to the left and right and a disastrous economic situation that he had little power to rectify. Soares inherited a quadrupled price of Arab oil, a depressed economy in which half the country's food and most of its machinery and raw materials were imported, an influx of 750,000 refugees from the former African territories and a 30% inflation rate. Of late even the Premier's personal popularity had begun to slip because of the rising cost of food, inflation that has continued to climb to 33%, unemployment, increased crime and other problems...
...concern about the effects of marijuana took on a new dimension during his four-year stay in Princeton. Humes says he began to notice a "heavy influx of treated grass" coming into the Mercer County, N.J. area in the early '70s, and he decided to look into the matter by systematically collecting samples of the worst batches of chemically-strengthened marijuana. Princeton police placed Humes under arrest for marijuana possession on July 16, 1973 during a routine visit to serve him with another arrest warrant for a probation violation. He was taken into custody for having collected the samples...