Word: influxes
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Both soccer squads reached the NCAA quarterfinals last season, and hope to have similar success this year with the influx of new talent...
Both soccer squads reached the NCAA quarterfinals last season, and hope to have similar success this year with the influx of new talent...
...perennial tourist nightmare, one that Karl Malden uses to sell traveler's checks on TV. Now, with a record number of bargain-hunting Americans in Europe, purse snatching, currency rip-offs and sophisticated new scams in some cities are growing as fast as the influx of visitors. Thieves are operating in formerly safe sites such as Paris' Latin Quarter and even idyllic Stratford-upon-Avon. Refunds for missing American Express Travelers Cheques have climbed by a significant margin. "The British don't want to advertise," says Dick Haegeley, chief of the Passport and Citizen's Unit at the American embassy...
Without in any way condoning the action of the hijackers of flight 847, I question Mr. Kahn's attribution of highly strategic and politically sophisticated motives to the hijackers. Originally inhabitants of the southern rural regions of Lebanon, the Lebanese Shiite community was disrupted by the influx of Palestinians into southern Lebanon following the establishment of Israel, and by the mounting violence between Palestinians and Israelis in that region which reached its climax with the Israeli invasion in 1982. Since that time, Lebanese Shiites have been forced to move in increasing numbers to urban slums. The rural economy which...
...wasn't until the influx of Harvard computers six years ago that freshmen received roommate addresses during the summer enabling them to write to or call their future roommates, says Lewis. Freshmen will see the results of the process in the middle of August, when the dean's office sends a computer print-out listing the names and addresses of future roommates...