Word: allen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...known what the working conditions were like. But having borrowed the equivalent of $2,800 to pay the "recruitment fee" in China, she cannot return until she has earned at least enough to pay off the loan. "That comes close to the definition of indentured labor," says Allen Stayman, insular-affairs director at the U.S. Department of the Interior, who is pressuring the Northern Marianas to clean up sweatshop practices or face a federal takeover of immigration and labor controls. "The local immigration and labor departments are essentially organized crime," says Stayman. "It is one big scam." So big that...
...WOODY ALLEN TIES THE KNOT...
Writing is a deceptive activity. It appears to the general public, and to that lesser breed of writers, as an activity, something to be put on a summer camp agenda, if you will. The image of the writer is Hemingway at his typewriter in the jungle, or Woody Allen in his New York apartment...
...Friendly Ghost, Winky Dink and Swee'Pea. Though she was featured in over 1,900 films, Questel once complained that she could walk down a New York City street without being recognized. In one of her last film roles, she played a caricature of a different sort, Woody Allen's mother in the movie New York Stories...
...thousands of people who are sensitive to dust and who suffer from respiratory and heart diseases. And the winners will not be gardeners, as you said, or lawn-care workers; the winner will be the company that makes a blower that complies with city noise standards. JACK ALLEN Zero Air Pollution Los Angeles...