Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solve another problem: population growth. Looking anxiously ahead, Tom McCall, then Governor of Oregon, declared in 1971: "Please come and visit us again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't come and live here." Surprisingly, the migration to the Northwest is still a trickle compared with the tide flowing to the Sunbelt, but more and more Americans, lured by the natural beauty and the way of life it fosters, are arriving. The populations of Washington, Oregon and Idaho have increased 15% during the past ten years (Florida rose 45%) and are expected to grow another...
...tide of color threatens to engulf Britian." So warns the National Front, a neofascist party whose main goal is to expel the estimated 2 million "coloreds" - Jamaicans, Indians, Pakistanis and other nonwhite former colonials - who have migrated to Britain since 1945. The ten-year-old front mixes crude, inflammatory racism with a dose of ultranationalism (calling for increased defense spending and high protective tariffs, for example). Official membership is only about 20,000, but the front has attracted a following among working-class whites and is the country's fastest-growing political movement. Although it has yet to elect...
...Minutemen built up a lead in the lighter weights, but two consecutive victories by co-captains Tom Bixby and Jim Corcoran narrowed the gap and turned the tide in favor of the Crimson grapplers...
...Somali forces holding most of the disputed territory and maintaining pressure on the strategic Ethiopian-held towns of Harar and Dire Dawa. Most diplomatic sources in Mogadishu believe, however, that when new shipments of heavy Soviet military equipment already in Ethiopia begin to show up in the field, the tide of battle could well turn against the Somalis...
...enlarged black states retaining some sort of confederal relationship with Pretoria. Demanding that South Africa move immediately toward one man, one vote, Ball points out, is futile; in the present context, the South Africans could not be induced to accept it, fearing that they would be swamped by a tide of black nationalism...