Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growing health and environmental warnings coincided with a shift in the political climate. President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton sent a message that the war on smoking was getting personal when they banned smoking in the White House on Inauguration Day. Congress, meanwhile, has seen an influx of environmentally concerned baby boomers, along with a decline in the traditional power of tobacco-state legislators. Despite continued lavish spending by the tobacco lobby to try to influence Congress, for the first time members of the antismoking Congressional Task Force on Tobacco and Health outnumber pro-tobacco House members...
...Britain, leading to lectures and even debates on the novel. As a result of the show, a Penguin paperback of the novel topped best-seller lists for five weeks, and is still doing well. The town of Stamford in Lincolnshire, where exteriors were filmed, is preparing for a summertime influx of tourists...
...surface, the goals of the action seem laudable. The FDO is ostensibly trying to build solidarity in the class of 1997 by making the Union more attractive to the locationally challenged. They are also trying to preserve the quality of life in the Quad houses by reducing the influx of first-years; there is nothing worse than seeing the last Chickwich taken by a cherub-faced kid talking about how excited he is to take his first college exam...
Meanwhile, now that the shock of the CS50 influx has worn off, the department's bigwigs are trying to deal with the ramifications of the unexpected interest in their discipline...
...professors fear, if the influx translates into a huge crop of computer science concentrators, the department might not have the staff to teach them...