Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year, the TV picture in France has never been so lively or diverse. Yet the new offerings have sparked a heated debate. Political opponents of the Socialist government denounced the process by which the new channels were created as "completely scandalous." Cultural leaders, meanwhile, warned that the expected influx of foreign-produced shows, many of them from the U.S., amounted to nothing less than "a state crime against culture...
...will never be sorry that I made the decision to help you," Reagan told the Grenadians. Now, he added, the U.S. "must help those struggling for freedom in Nicaragua." The Soviets and Cubans, Administration officials contended, are strengthening the Sandinista regime's defenses with a "massive influx" of weapons. Though Congress approved $27 million in "humanitarian aid" to the contras last year, "we have to do more," Reagan told a delegation of congressional leaders at the White House last week. "You can't fight attack helicopters piloted by Cubans with Band-Aids and mosquito nets." Administration officials warn that...
...professionals who came armed with immigration papers. In 1972 the onslaught of illegal aliens fleeing Haiti in rickety boats began. They too claimed that they were seeking political asylum, but many of these penniless, illiterate, unskilled boat people seemed to be in desperate search of work. As the annual influx climbed to 20,000 in 1980, the welcome mat was withdrawn. In June 1981, the first group of illegal aliens was deported. A month later, President Reagan declared that it was time to "establish control over immigration." U.S. officials revived a policy that had been abandoned 27 years earlier: detention...
Among them are the large-scale recruiting campaigns carried out by law firms each year. "Every fall there is a huge influx of corporate law recruiters who ply students with fancy dinners and offers of free interviewing trips all over the country," says Schwarz. "This institution pervades the atmosphere of the Law School, bringing the focus of the institution onto a future job, rather than learning how to be a lawyer...
...sheltered illicit casinos and speakeasy bars, patronized by gangsters and movie stars. During the '60s West Hollywood attracted hippies, druggies and rock-music clubs such as the Troubador and Whisky a GoGo. A decade later West Hollywood welcomed a migration of Russian Jews fleeing Soviet oppression and an influx of homosexuals weary of perceived harassment by the LAPD...