Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Change has certainly been inconsistent and incremental, and its spokesmen have certainly not revealed where is the process is heading--just as Huntington advised. Even the two-steps-forward, one-back sugestion has been followed: influx control laws were declared abolished, but Blacks' rights to move freely around the country are still controlled by legal fictions, including "citizenship" in bantustans and housing codes which block Blacks from living in "white" cities. Forced removals have broken up Black communities offering resistance to government policies--a perfect example of preventing opposition from mobilizing. Similarly, mass detentions, a constant troop presence on township...
...Stop trading General Mills, influx of orders. Stop trading Northwest Air, influx of orders," command the p.a. speakers at the Pacific Stock Exchange. But the market trend is up. Says Specialist Kurtis Kupiec: "Today the world's a better place...
...effort to stem that influx, the U.S. Border Patrol last week opened its first station outside the continental U.S. The office, located at the old Ramey Air Force Base on the west coast of Puerto Rico, will be staffed by 15 officers and equipped with two Boston Whalers and a twin-engine plane. Depending on future patterns of illegal immigration traffic, the Border Patrol may open as many as three other stations on the Puerto Rican coast...
...situation is viewed as potentially--indeed imminently--catastrophic. The Philippines is of immense strategic importance to the United States, and the loss of a viable centrist position there will mean the worsening of the 17-year civil war, with little hope for positive resolution. Some have suggested a massive influx of emergency funds to bolster Aquino's sagging position, including both military and economic...
...FDIC has already rescued eleven Texas banks, while 38 others went belly up. Last week, as Abboud set up temporary quarters in a First City Tower conference room, he said he will aggressively seek new business, and predicted that First City will be profitable "very shortly" after the influx of FDIC and private funds. "As this bank emerges, it's going to be formidable," Abboud vowed. "We're starting clean...