Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Soviet officers who have lived relatively well abroad are coming back to nothing," confirms a senior Western military attache in Moscow. Some soldiers are faring even worse; several thousand are reportedly living in tents in the Odessa area. A poll of army personnel taken last fall, even before the influx from Eastern Europe began, found that 91% considered their quality of life "almost unbearable." Such a mood, said Izvestia, was "creating a crisis in the army...
...With the influx from across the Pacific have come Asian trade and Asian money. New immigrants do business with friends and relatives in their home countries, tapping into Tokyo and the expanding capital markets of Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore and Bangkok. Healthy stakes in real estate, banking, medicine, engineering, commerce and finance give Asians in America the appearance of a gilded community. According to the latest U.S. Census, Japanese Americans and Asian Indians possessed the largest average family incomes among all ethnic groups, including whites...
...Angeles, as in other cities across the U.S., tension has arisen between Korean Americans and members of the black community, who resent the influx of "foreign" businesses that take money out of their neighborhoods. In a wider context, even though Canadians until recently owned more of California than Japanese did, it is the latter who are looked upon as encroachers. "I've heard more anti-Japanese sentiment in working-class bars than I can remember," says Richard Kjeldsen, a University of Southern California financial specialist on the Pacific Rim. Japan bashing easily becomes Asian bashing. The most famous case...
Still, the history of Asian settlement on the West Coast has been one of displacement and suppression. After completing the transcontinental railway in the 19th century, Chinese immigrants were rewarded with race riots, * demagoguery and the Immigration Exclusion Act of 1882, which cut off the Chinese influx. Local hostility forced Asian Indians out of Washington State in 1907. During World War II, Japanese Americans were forced to liquidate their assets and relocate to detention camps, taking only the belongings they could carry by hand; a similar fate did not befall residents of German or Italian ancestry...
...shelters. But this is not the first time that Prophet has prophesied Armageddon; in 1987 she predicted that California would fall into the sea. That may be one reason why church officials have been denying that the faithful will be diving for cover anytime soon, insisting that the sudden influx of followers to Montana is merely a response to Prophet's call for a prayer vigil to deflect the danger of a nuclear catastrophe...