Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, the sudden influx of wood-fire cooking in the Square seems destined to make the lives of hungry Square denizens more confusing. The trend towards catering to distinctive, individual tastes can have its evil downside...
...time. Decades of misrule have brought the institutions of government to a state of collapse. In the past 20 months more than 3,000 politicians and businessmen have been implicated in an ever expanding web of billion-dollar kickback and bribery scandals. High taxes, unemployment over 10% and an influx of immigrants have finally driven the normally sanguine Italians into a rage...
Illegal immigrants. This is what makes Americans almost unanimously furious. No one knows the numbers, of course, but official estimates put the illegal -- or "undocumented" -- influx at more than 300,000 a year currently and almost 5 million over the past 10 years...
...19th. Between Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815 and the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914, more than 30 million Europeans left their homelands -- some involuntarily -- to settle in the U.S. It was by far the greatest mass movement in human history. The influx continues, in ever greater variety. For people in search of better lives, America remains the ultimate lure...
Moreover, despite an influx of farmers and smokestack-industry workers attracted by its anti-NAFTA stance, UWSA's core membership is heavy on small- business people, retired military officers and others dexterous with Rolodexes, mailing lists and the other building blocks of activism. They are also dedicated. Roger Henson, the group's Texas issues coordinator, a 45-year- old engineering consultant with a wife and 11-year-old son, has put his life on hold to work the volunteer position. "We made the decision as a family that it was critical to our nation to participate in this debate...