Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard has likewise joined with fifteen other universities and colleges in urging the American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa to mount active and sustained opposition to the influx control laws integral to the maintenance of apartheid...
This year, as noted in the Progress Report, Harvard has also written to each company in its portfolio that is doing business in South Africa urging management to express active opposition to South Africa's influx control laws--the cornerstone of apartheid--and to undertake action to try to assure that black employees' families will be allowed to live with them near their places of work. In addition, the University has begun to seek information on portfolio companies' sales to the South African government, with special emphasis on sales to the police, military, and other agencies directly enforcing apartheid...
Fears of possible gentrification haunt the advocates of the proposals. Many of them see the rapid influx of larger businesses as an instruction that threatens to destroy the city's diverse social fabric threeatents to destroy the city's diverse social fabric. They worry that uncheeked development will replace a Cambridge made up of construction workers and professors, the wealthy on Brattle Street and the ethnic neighborhoods to the east with while dollar professionals attached to the universities and high-tech firms. Only more affordable housing they say, can keep low, and moderate income people in the city...
President Bok is one of 16 presidents of U.S. colleges and universities who have sent a letter to the American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa, urging its members to oppose more actively the so-called influx control laws, the cornerstone of apartheid in South Africa...
...along with thousands of other Mariel boat people in 1980. In return, the U.S. will begin accepting once again an orderly stream of Cuban immigrants, as well as about 3,000 anti-Castroites, former political prisoners whose promised exit from Cuba has been held up since the disruptive influx from Mariel...