Word: bentely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each so-called illegal they hire. The men who wait in Tijuana scoff at the idea that the threat of fines will inhibit employers from hiring them as long as there is a need for workers. "In the U.S., as in Mexico, laws are made to be bent," says one. Even so, the men are worried. The bill, they say, would give U.S. employers an excuse to pay them less than they do now, because of the risks involved in hiring illegal immigrants...
...outset locked itself into a negotiating position that seemed almost calculated to guarantee Soviet rejection. In both its opening proposal and the subsequent negotiations in Geneva, the Administration seemed bent on forcing drastic cuts in existing Soviet forces while accepting only marginal restrictions on future U.S. programs. Administration officials admitted that their position was "front-loaded" with measures that would squeeze the Soviets in the short run, but they claimed that the long-term effect would be true equality and greater stability. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and other Soviet spokesmen were contemptuous in dismissing what they called a "cynical American...
Last week Bolivia announced it would not send a team to the 1984 Olympics. Again officials pleaded poverty. This time, however, many suspected that the government, which now counts two Communists in the Cabinet, was bent on following the Soviet lead in boycotting the Los Angeles Games...
Rock fans may find it shocking, but Frank Zappa, 43, the bent mind behind Weasels Ripped My Flesh and Valley Girl, has gone legit. This week California's Berkeley Symphony Orchestra performs the world premiere of A Zappa Affair, a program of four short ballets. Zappa may have jettisoned the synthesizers and electric guitars, but he has kept his famous sense of the absurd. The ballets-titled Moe 'n' Herb's Vacation, Sinister Footwear, Bob in Dacron and Sad Jane-are performed by giant puppets attached to live performers. "There are a lot of things...
...twelve-year-old boy's sweet smile makes a poignant contrast to his otherwise pitiful appearance. His arms and legs are deformed and bent, as though he had suffered from rickets. Several fingers are missing. A large open wound covers one knee, and the smiling lips are bitten raw. He looks for all the world like a battered child, but only nature is to blame for his condition. He was born with an extremely rare genetic defect that makes him insensitive to pain. His fingers were either crushed or burned because he did not pull his hand away from...