Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recession, are not eager to be swamped by refugees who will need housing, jobs and welfare benefits. Germany has been particularly responsive, shelling out $51 million this year in refugee assistance and taking in 115,000 refugees -- almost twice as many as Hungary, which has the second largest influx. Germany's appeal owes much to its 800,000 guest workers of Yugoslav origin. "Practically everybody has a relative or a friend living in Germany," says Wolf Oschlies, a Yugoslav specialist at Cologne's Federal Institute for Eastern European and International Studies...
...started The Fifth floor Journal, an umbrella arts organization for first-year students. He now says he sees the literary community collapsing in on itself. "I think there used to be more of a literary community. When we had The Fifth Floor Journal, that was a big influx into the literary community," he tells me. "Now it's just shrinking back to the AdvocateInevitably, it'll burst open again...
Havnen added that this influx of women into thepolitical sphere "has had a considerable influenceon the national level and also the local level...
...democratic impulse to reach out to so many first took seed after World War II, when the G.I. bill made funding for higher education available to all returning soldiers. As universities expanded to handle the sudden influx, they developed the flexibility that has become one of the hallmarks of American higher learning. "In the U.S. there is a system of infinite chances," says Diane Ravitch, Assistant Secretary of Education. "At 35, you can decide to go back to college, upgrade your education, change your profession...
Police believe that many of the latest gangsters come from China, recruited by Hong Kong criminal rings. To stop the influx, the British administration is pledging to work closely with Beijing, which will assume control of the colony in 1997 and whose patrols have been letting more and more people and goods steal past the border. Hong Kong police are pressing for a quicker, simpler response: more money and better weapons...