Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the influx of students and money changing hands, Yale and New Haven police do not plan many special precautions...
...other course leaders kept alphabetical categories to prevent the huge influx of papers from becoming a disorganized mess...
...Palestinian population in the territories by one-third and bring in many individuals deemed security risks by Israel. In reality, both sides recognize that the main constraint on the number of returnees is economic: the West Bank and Gaza Strip are impoverished and cannot afford to absorb a gigantic influx of newcomers. During the secret negotiations in Oslo, both sides informally batted around the figure of 200,000 returnees...
With prosperity has come an influx of people, and then more people. Colorado had a net immigration of 61,000, the highest number of new arrivals since 1978. Utah, historically an exporter of its well-educated population, particularly to the Pacific Coast, has had a net influx of 19,000 in each of the past two years. All the states report that the largest number of newcomers are former Californians. "There is a push-pull effect at work," observes Lamm. "The push is the businesspeople of Los Angeles saying, 'The workers' compensation system is prohibitive, I have to spend...
...eruption blanketed the region in ash. Then a drought, which eventually lasted 300 years, crippled the farming communities on which the cities depended, forcing urban dwellers to abandon their empty granaries and silent temples. Refugees migrated to southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq), which had escaped the disaster. But the unexpected influx of people from the north so strained the region's resources that the Akkadian empire fell to neighboring hordes...