Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years the U.S. has demanded just such a withdrawal as a precondition for the normalization of relations between Washington and Hanoi. Viet Nam hopes that diplomatic recognition by the U.S. and removal of the trade embargo will end its isolation and lead to an influx of Western aid, trade, credits and technology. Many Vietnamese recognize that their political and economic system is a shambles. Some officials admit privately that they can run wars but not countries...
...only eight states allowed full-time staff teachers to be hired without an undergraduate degree in education or classroom experience. Now 23 states have eased training and certification requirements, considered by many to be the most formidable and unnecessary barrier to attracting teaching talent. The result has been an influx of military retirees and career switchers from other professions -- some 2,500 in all during the 1987-88 school year. These recruits have helped reduce teacher shortages and have reinvigorated the classroom. Last spring Bush proposed $25 million in grants to encourage other states to follow suit; the measure awaits...
...West Germany. In keeping with its constitutional commitment to a united Germany, Bonn regards the refugees as citizens of the Federal Republic with full rights. Upon arrival, they receive $100, and within days they begin receiving unemployment benefits. West German citizens, who already must contend with a huge influx of ethnic German immigrants from Poland and the Soviet Union, are growing resentful of the refugee burden, which gluts the job market and strains housing resources. "The East German leadership carries exclusive responsibility for the situation," Chancellor Helmut Kohl charged last week. "We will not let them evade this...
...rights. During five decades of Soviet rule, the three republics have watched helplessly as all- powerful ministries in Moscow imposed new industries, regardless of whether they were appropriate to the region. As a result, stretches of white sand beaches along the Baltic coast became too polluted for swimming. An influx of outside manpower threatened to make Latvians a minority in their own homeland. The hardworking Estonians learned to their amazement that by Gorbachev's reckoning, they were supposed to be running a yearly deficit of 500 million rubles in the Soviet Union's federal budget...
When Isaac Abraham, 38, was growing up in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y., it was populated mainly by ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jews. But by the 1970s, Williamsburg had experienced a large influx of blacks and Hispanics. Abraham now lives in a subsidized housing project where 49% of the tenants are white and 51% black or Hispanic, and race relations are often strained...