Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting of national and regional party leaders last week, he proposed his own partial answer. If the party was blocking change by clinging to conservative attitudes, he lectured, then "a purge should take place, a purge was needed." He called for "an influx of fresh forces" affecting every level from factory collectives to the Politburo. Vowed Gorbachev: "This concerns everyone...
Because Radcliffe does not have its own faculty or students, the scholarly programs provide the influx of new people and fresh scholarship necessary to sustain the school's independent identity, according to many associated with the programs...
After the election, the two Republicans were joined by a new influx of Harvard scholars--this despite the widely circulated joke that when the bus came to Harvard Square last January to transport academics to the capital the scholars would find only a jeep...
...response to this influx of Harvard Republicans in Washington has been predictably modest, given the campaign rhetoric...
...paradox is that while prisons are filled beyond their capacity, there has been little discernible reduction in crime. Though rates of serious offenses dipped for a time during the 1980s, they have been climbing again, fueled by an influx of drugs. Prison gates have become more like revolving doors: nearly two-thirds of all convicts are rearrested within three years of their release...