Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City crime statistics related to the influx of crack were released last week. The sheer numbers are staggering in their implications; and New York City is only the most visible example of a problem spreading throughout the country's urban and inner city areas...
...Immigration Reform Act is an example of the disarray of current policy. Designed to control a huge influx of illegal immigrants, the law provided an opportunity for 3 million to 5 million aliens who had lived and worked in the U.S. since before 1982 to become permanent residents. It also established penalties for employers who knowingly hired illegal aliens, making it much more difficult for them to find jobs and provoking discrimination against job seekers who merely look like foreigners. But the law has not significantly reduced unauthorized immigration. The flow from the South continues at such a pace that...
...need for those smaller colleges to keep providing an influx of fresh blood for Harvard is contingent upon one thing: Will the University's already-tenured professors decide to hold on to their jobs or move aside for the next generation...
...influx of Central American refugees fleeing war-torn El Salvador and Nicaragua and economically-crippled Mexico has generated just as much mistrust and fear from Catholics as from any other group. Although Church social teaching says that when a country cannot provide the basic necessities of life, its citizens should be free to emigrate to those countries that can, Catholics have been as reluctant as other religious groups to denounce restrictions on emigration from Central America...
Searching for substitute courses, scores of students showed up at Literature and Arts B-25, "Rembrandt and his Contemporaries." The professor, who originally did not intend to lottery the course, responded to the large influx of students by sending approximately 100 sophomores scrambling for another course on the day shopping period ended and study cards were...