Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principles call for direct corporate involvment in the South African political process to oppose influx control laws, the legal underpinning of the South African system of apartheid Companies that endorse the Tutu Principles also must agree to invest massively in education programs for non-white citizens of South Africa, permit unionization of Black workers, and a number of similar measures...
...amnesty reflects America's justifiable concern with controlling its 2,000 mile border with Mexico. Estimates put the number of illegal immigrants between four and six million, with about 60 percent of them coming from Mexico alone. Furthermore political upheaval, population growth projections, and economic squalor promise a continuing influx...
Federal law officials began concentrating on the state in the 1960s when an influx of Teamster money fueled an explosive growth in Las Vegas casinos and heightened the interest of organized crime in gambling. By the 1970s, the FBI, the IRS and the SEC had all launched investigations. The federal-local battle was joined in 1979 when U.S. agents began to track Claiborne...
...York on the way, it seems ready to march to a different anthem: "My little town blues/ are melting away,/ I'll make a brand-new start of it/ in old New York." CBS and Manhattan may seem like another odd coupling, but given the influx of new shows, it just might take...
...renewed focus on manufacturing is far from voluntary. It was forced on corporations by two withering recessions in the past decade and an influx of cheaper and frequently better-made foreign goods. It was prompted too by sluggish productivity. While U.S. factories still outproduce those of any other country in the world, the average annual increase in productivity has slipped to less than 2% since 1973, down from 3% in the two decades after World War II. In Japan manufacturing efficiency has been increasing 7% per year, while in West Germany it has grown more than...