Word: alienness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conferees applauded when Lehrman read words from President Reagan: "Around the world we see people joining together . . . to free their nations from outside domination and an alien ideology . . . Their goals are % our goals." Lehrman did not point out that this letter was not from Reagan to the new allies, but from Reagan to "Dear...
...second time in just over two years that Nigeria had ordered an exodus of alien residents. In 1983 some 2 million illegal immigrants were unceremoniously booted out of the country. At that time, there were reports that some of the foreigners were beaten and robbed as they tried to make their way out of Nigeria. Some diplomats in Lagos said they believed that the latest order was issued for much the same reasons as in 1983: a troubled economy that continues to be badly hurt by depressed crude-oil prices. At a time when jobs are scarce and prices...
...fuel the line and cry for draconian law and order than to give the business community a financial stake in increasing the number of prisoners? Although Texas and New Mexico have already passed legislation authorizing private prisons, no states are actually using them. However, private companies do operate alien detention centers (primarily for Haitians) for the federal government, and there have already been at least two instances of neglect and violence against prisoners that probably would have not have happened in state institutions...
...main road." McCarthy's reflections begin with a recollection of her colleague Philip Rahv, longtime editor of Partisan Review. Thousands of words have been spent discussing the unrepentant old radical; this obituary captures him in three sentences: "He never learned to swim . . . He would immerse his body in the alien element but declined or perhaps feared to move with it. His resistance to swimming with the tide, his mistrust of currents, were his strength...
Speaking about his experience in America, the illegal alien said that many like him are afraid of seeking medical treatment at hospitals or asking policemen for directions for fear of deportation...