Word: influxes
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...wall cafés serving little else but broth containing double-boiled chicken and deer antler, pigeon with cicada shells and ginseng, and the like. Typical of the breed is Anyway - a pun on ai ni wei, meaning "love your tummy." Guilin's residents, despite the relentless influx of tourists, seem to have no hesitation in doing just that, and loving life into the bargain...
...Matthew C. Lishanky from Upstairs on the Square said that recruiting isn’t the only thing that has changed—so have the part-time career aspirations of former Wall Street bigwigs. “It’s amazing to see the influx of resumes of lawyers and financial analysts applying for positions as servers and bussers,” said Lishanky, the restaurant’s director of operations. This phenomenon did not hold to be true at other restaurants interviewed, who said that the pool of applicants is broader and more talented...
...same core group of players intact and what promises to be an exceptional freshman class.“It’s an ingredient of success to have strong leadership and veterans, and we have that this year,” Allard says. “We have an influx of very strong freshman talent, and we have a lot of returners who have been starters and major contributors, so that just lends itself to a good, experienced squad.”With the graduation of pitchers Shelly Madick ’08 and Amanda Watkins...
...Admittedly, such a program should not have to exist. Quality workers should naturally rise to the top in any good organization. But that’s a magnificently long-term problem, and in the meantime the government still needs an influx of talented students in its ranks. When career bureaucrats dominate the cabinet roundtable, then advancement shortcuts will be obsolete. Until then, talented students will need to see a less murky path to success if they are to join the public sector...
Handling that influx is what concerns the planners most at l'htel de ville, the city hall. Paris got a dose of overload when Japanese visitors, armed with the supercharged yen, arrived by the 747-load in the 1980s. Now think about Chinese and Indians arriving in similar numbers...