Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also a big day for the 90,000 or so residents of Cambridge, who are forced to deal with an influx of about 55,000 extra visitors...
...problem for the military is not that discipline will be undermined by a sudden influx of stereotypically swishy gays. The problem is that the military is still a largely unisexual institution, with all that that implies about the possibility of homosexual encounters even among otherwise straight men. The traditionalists keep bringing up the "crowded showers," much like the dreaded unisex toilets of the ERA debate. But, somewhere deep in the sexual imagination, one has to wonder: Why do they have to have such crowded showers anyway...
...those same years, California has seen an influx of immigrants, a rise in the number of kids with learning and behavioral problems, more latchkey children whose parents are working and hungry kids whose parents are not. "Schools are expected to provide more social services, more counseling, more psychological and nursing services," says Dan Moirao, superintendent of the Hayward Unified School District. "But because of low funding, we have difficulty just providing the basic teacher in front of the classroom with a textbook...
...With an influx of talented recruits, Yale will also most likely challenge Harvard. Last year, the Crimson beat the Bulldogs in both games and hopes to do the same...
...grade inflation actually begins before the influx of minority students," Levine said...