Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...influx at the monasteries includes a small contingent of Gen Xers, but the majority are their baby-boomer parents, taking stock of the past as they swing around to look into the fog of the future. "You peel off life's accessories and come in nakedness before the Lord, asking 'What do I do with my life?'" says Father Tom Gedeon of Notre Dame's Retreat International association, explaining the appeal of retreats. But isn't this just the latest fad of the Me generation? Twig Branch, 42, a Presbyterian insurance agent based in Charlotte, N.C., who first attended...
...influx of better-educated, more suburban voters to the new North Carolina has created a political paradox. The state's electorate is becoming more Republican yet less conservative. New voters in Charlotte and Research Triangle Park tend to register Republican but still prefer fiscally responsible pragmatists--even if they sometimes happen to be Democrats--over firebrand ideologues. Faircloth, a successful hog farmer and former Democrat, scores better in the rural east, which is dominated by socially conservative white Democrats who frequently cross party lines to vote for Helms and other G.O.P. culture warriors. Black voters overwhelmingly support Democrats. The result...
...start with, the influx of new residents fromCambridge is beginning to push up rents inSomerville, putting the city on the path togentrification...
Meantime, Buckley says he worries that thethings he loves about Somerville--"the eclecticmix of people, the ethnicity, the littlestores"--may be driven out by the influx of moreaffluent residents...
...loses that, it has lost its raisond'être," Bretta says.CrimsonDavin J. ChewSAVING SOMERVILLE: Somerville MayorMICHAEL E. CAPUANO hopes to preserve the city'sunique character amid an influx of newresidents...