Word: bayview
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Naturalization Service: they were promptly incarcerated. Under a new hard-line policy, refugees are detained while awaiting action on their request for political asylum, then deported if rejected by the INS. This time roughly 110 men and women were confined behind barbed wire at a detention center near Bayview, Texas, while about 200 mothers with children were held at a Red Cross shelter in nearby Brownsville...
Since the INS's get-tough edict took effect, the number of Central Americans seeking asylum at the INS processing center near Bayview has plunged from a high of 967 a day to 313 a week. Of these, only three arrivals, or about 1% of the total, were granted asylum. Noting the drop in applications, the INS put off plans to build a tent city to hold as many as 5,000 detainees and cautiously declared the new policy a success...
...fare is just 75 cents, but the ride could be worth your life. The public- transit buses that wind through southeast San Francisco have come to be known as the "Savage Lines." In the tough, low-income areas of Bayview/ Hunters Point, Visitacion Valley and Potrero Hill, coaches have been battered with rocks, bottles, lead pipes and gunfire. Passengers and drivers have been beaten and robbed by gangs of teenagers. Since December more than 70 bus attacks have been reported...
...York City, the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles has for the past two months been channeling calls to a room in the Bayview Correctional Facility, a medium-security women's prison. The cheery voice that says, "Hello. May I help you?" belongs to one of 33 inmates who handle up to 6,500 calls a day. The department's regular entry-level employees receive between $8.04 and $9.93 an hour. The Bayview volunteers, many of whom work a full 37 1/2-hour week, pocket 32 cents to 65 cents an hour, the going rate for prison work...
...city and state financial officials who gathered last week at the Bayview Plaza Holiday Inn in Santa Monica, Calif., hardly looked like subversives. Nonetheless one participant, New York City Comptroller Harrison Goldin, declared the group's purpose to be "revolutionary." By the end of their two-day conclave, the 31-member Council of Institutional Investors, a group of pension-fund managers who control assets of nearly $200 billion, had endorsed a ringing "Shareholders Bill of Rights," intended as a challenge to every major U.S. corporate boardroom. Among other things, the group of hitherto largely passive investors drawn chiefly from...