Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understand the Westinghouse connection. The Westinghouse which builds railways in South Africa is a British conglomerate, no relation to the American company at all. Out of the hundreds of American companies doing business in South Africa, some of which supply computers to aid the government in enforcing influx control, the backbone of apartheid, Jackson mistakenly chose to boycott Westinghouse, which has only 105 employees in the nation. One would think that the reverend would research a specific company thoroughly before he decided a boycott was necessary, especially since he is on the record as condemning all businesses which operate...
...Director Louis Malle (The Lovers, Murmur of the Heart) uncovers in Alamo Bay. The script is based on a conflict that exploded in the late '70s on the Texas Gulf Coast. In the film town of Port Alamo, "Anglo" shrimp fishermen battle the current, the depressed prices and the influx of Vietnamese refugees plying an old trade in a new land. Shang (Ed Harris) is one such rowdy all-American, working his ancestral fishing grounds and feeling threatened by the Asians he fought to defend a world and a war ago. Dinh (Ho Nguyen) is a bright, ambitious immigrant...
...There are anywhere from 200,000 to 250,000 people coming into this city on any given day," said Santilli, adding that this influx of people would have significantly altered Cambridge's standing in the survey...
active opposition to the influx control laws, which allow the military police to resettle Blacks randomly throughout the countryside, keeping them from intense political activity...
...budget deficit, which is expected to hit a record $222 billion this year. As the economy expands, business borrowers will be competing more and more intensely with the Government for the limited pool of private savings, and that could put upward pressure on interest rates. So far, only the influx of foreign money, which amounted to $62 billion in the first three quarters of last year, has prevented a crunch. Perhaps the most sinister aspect of the budget deficit is that its effects are gradual and masked by the general prosperity. "Deficits are not explosive," said Heller. "They are corrosive...