Word: alienates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legal jargon she is called Baby Girl, Alien No. A21324657. The day after she was born to a Mexican mother in a Tijuana hospital, she was carried away by an American couple. Adopted, say the couple; kidnaped, says the mother. In the six years since then, a bitter, tangled legal battle has been fought over the custody of the bright and friendly child, piling up proceedings in seven U.S. courts alone and calling for Solomonic choices between two families, two nationalities, two cultures...
...added that the proposal gives "permanent alien resident status" to immigrants meeting certain requirements, and also sets down guidelines for a two-year experimental "guest worker" program...
...long, the Latin American film world has been dominated by American directors, and Latin American culture too heavily influenced by the values implicit in American films. Though it will take a long time to erase misunderstandings of the Third World, the emergence of films which show a reality alien to our own is a large step toward progress...
...Rahway, N.J., chemists at Merck & Co., the country's biggest prescription drug manufacturer, stare into video display computer terminals at brightly colored, twisting geometric shapes reminiscent of an alien virus in a science-fiction epic. The scientists are testing the action of a new drug on an enzyme through computer simulation. Says Merck Research Fellow Graham Smith: "Instead of taking a month to synthesize a new compound, we can now do it in a few minutes...
Other adults mesmerized Elvis as well. With a gravel-voiced, paunchy old carnival huckster, Colonel Thomas Parker, Presley zoomed from white gospel singalongs to gold-record celebrity. The Colonel, claims Goldman, was actually an illegal Dutch immigrant, Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk. According to Goldman, the manager's alien status would explain why Presley never played Europe or Japan...