Word: influxes
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...help rescue, shelter and screen refugees. He demanded that Washington help defray the costs of health care, social services and law enforcement for the newcomers, which he estimates will approach $1 billion this year. "All of us feel for rafters," Chiles said Saturday, "but Florida cannot stand another influx...
...invested in Woodstock '94: "There's this myth that Woodstock was a free festival. It wasn't a free concert at all, and it wasn't intended to be a free concert." On that weekend in '69, the kids broke down the fences; the promoters couldn't stop the influx, so they gave in to the inevitable and announced that the show was free. It was a huge money loser for its backers...
Consequently neighboring central African countries including Zaire and Burundi have established camps to deal with the influx of refugees; however, conditions in these camps are nightmarish. Food and water are in high demand as the Goma (Zaire) camp consumes nearly 600 metric tons of food and 50,000 gallons of water daily. According to United Nations officials, the present supplies, imported over the 497 mile gauntlet of bandits and renegade militiamen form Entebbe, are grossly inadequate. Moreover, Entebbe seems the only viable airport, as relief operations to Kigali, Rwanda's capital, frequently draw fire from automatic weapons...
High hopes over the strong women's team at the beginning of the season may have drawn attention away from the men, says Legutko. And an influx of inexperienced freshman may have stymied the team's momentum...
...Patriotic Front victory without reprisal killings might bring the only kind of contribution the international community is willing to make: a massive influx of humanitarian aid. Already the U.S. and many other countries have donated tens of millions of dollars in food, blankets and medicines to the handful of international-aid organizations still in Rwanda. But the fighting makes delivery of most relief supplies nearly impossible. "Money is not enough," says Ibrahim Osman of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. "Without serious military intervention, Rwanda cannot be saved...