Word: flocking
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...newfound mobility - and not just the brainy scientists who have long deserted their home labs for the U.S. As borders have fallen, more people than ever are packing up and leaving: thousands of Britons are trying their luck in France and Spain, even as Poles and other East Europeans flock to London to take often menial jobs...
...Japan, he's known as Beno, especially to the hip set who flock to the crowded, invitation-only nightclub parties he's been co-organizing for the past 15 months. "I had projects in France but times were difficult," he explains. In Tokyo, by contrast, he finds things easier. The Isetan department store has begun stocking his clothing brand, Boëge, named after his home town in the Alps. He keeps an eye on French politics, but has few illusions. "There's so much inertia," he says. "It's a wonderful country, but the energy to succeed needs...
...Homelessness in Cambridge.” But several seemingly insurmountable obstacles lay in the city’s path including local real estate prices, the federal government’s limited definition of “chronically homeless,” and the number of poor individuals who continually flock to the city from across the Greater Boston area...
...these other people in the congregation, and you feel isolated." The Christian support group Focus on the Family concurs: loneliness is the top topic on its hotline for pastors' wives. After all, a PW can hardly discuss marital woes or child-raising tribulations with her husband's flock, and colleagues or other friends outside the church don't get life inside it. "The church becomes their husband's mistress, and they in many ways lose their identity," says H.B. London, head of pastoral ministries for Focus on the Family and author of Married to a Pastor. "The expectations...
...star witness was a science-fiction fabulist: Michael Crichton, a critic of warming theory. Now holding the gavel is California's Barbara Boxer, who has had five hearings on climate change in less than three months. While more hearings are a certainty, she must also help field a flock of green bills being offered by newly empowered Democratic members...