Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard must think about equal opportunity forwomen," says Mary Gray, a professor of computersciences at American University who helped preparea rare external review of Harvard's undergraduateeducation last year. "There has been an influx ofwomen into the lower ranks, but without seniorwomen the quality of education is affectedadversely...
Monday night meeting, action will be taken to begin implementing other parts of the plan, such as the proposed monitoring of retail development to limit the influx of fast food restaurants, efforts to increase police protection in the square, and increase the overall appearance and cleanliness of the area...
...rising wave of foreigners is causing concern in academe. In no other field has the influx been so pronounced as in graduate engineering. An extraordinary 55.4% of last year's doctorates went to candidates from overseas (at Penn State the figure was 74%). "To a casual observer coming to our commencement," says Caltech Dean Arden Albee, "it looks like we're probably three-quarters Asian...
Another nation in agony is Malawi, which is suffering from both disastrous crop failures and an influx of 300,000 refugees from neighboring Mozambique. "Unless massive food supplies are brought in urgently," says a Western aid official, thousands will...
With gathering speed, yet another of apartheid's pillars -- the mandatory residential separation of the races -- is crumbling. Especially in Johannesburg but also in other large cities, neighborhoods that were once entirely white are seeing a steady influx of ethnic Asians, "coloreds" (people of mixed race), and, most surprisingly, blacks. The migration to these so-called gray areas is taking place in violation of the Group Areas Act, which completed the process of assigning every square foot of South Africa to residential use by one of the four racial groups and, when passed in 1950, was hailed by Prime Minister...