Word: wave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largely middle- class Asian professionals - doctors, engineers and academics from Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, India and the Philippines - seeking economic opportunity. In 1975, after the end of the Viet Nam War, 130,000 refugees, mostly from the educated middle class, began arriving. Three years later a second wave of 650,000 Indochinese started their journey from rural and poor areas to refugee camps to the towns and cities of America...
Prominent among the ranks of the franchisees are hundreds who have lost their jobs in the recent wave of retrenchment in American corporations. Says John Campbell, chief executive of Franchise Masters, a consulting firm with offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Tampa: "Some people want to buy a job. A lot of middle-management people are being displaced, and they've often got a good bit of money from severance...
Fearing further escalation, the government dispatched a negotiator to meet with Chung and union leaders. It marked the first time that Seoul has intervened since the wave of strikes began in July. After a session of several hours, Chung agreed to recognize the new unions, promised to conclude wage talks by Sept. 1 and reopened his plants. In Seoul, teary-eyed labor representatives toasted their boss with beer and serenaded him with the company song...
Though Denny McLain has won a new drug trial and will shortly be out of stir, other notorious pitchers are unleashing a crime wave in baseball. A week apart, only the fourth and fifth major leaguers ever suspended for malfeasance on the mound have received ten-day sentences. At the same time, bats are routinely being confiscated and X-rayed for illegal implants. The heavy summer air over the nation's famous diamonds has grown thick with larceny...
...first wave of Wolf children has fared poorly, the three still in their teens show no signs of doing better. The stories of Anthony, 19, Kemya, 16, and Myndell, the baby, 14, all have a disturbing sameness. None of them are interested in school; all are drawn to the street. They don't read % newspapers or much of anything else. When asked what places like Selma, Birmingham and Greensboro mean to them, they are dumbfounded...