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Until recently, Dreier and his fellow Republicans had managed to separate the two issues. Cash-rich, labor-hungry Silicon Valley companies have been pushing Congress to make it easier to import programmers and engineers rapidly. To satisfy the Valley, Congress wants to raise the cap on so-called H-1B visas for the second time in two years...
Last month Republicans, Democrats and the White House seemed to be onboard behind the increase. Committees in both houses of Congress passed bills raising the cap by differing amounts. Then the Clinton Administration, eyeing a window of political opportunity, upped the ante last month, proposing also to grant legal status to some illegal aliens. It's about "fairness and equity," says Gene Sperling, director of President Clinton's National Economic Council. Key Democrats quickly adopted the initiative, targeted at immigrants from Central America and Haiti living...
Begin by making sure your portfolio is diversified. When technology shares hit record highs, diversification became a dirty word. But today, it's a blessing. Your holdings should include a blend of small-, mid- and large-cap stocks, some international equities and bonds...
Afraid of missing out on a big run-up in technology? You can still take a defensive posture by staying with market-share leaders--Intel, Oracle, Cisco--rather than the more volatile small- and mid-cap techs...
...offered large amounts of cash to players who'll ensure that a favored team will lose a game, or simply that those players will perform below par. Cronje, who claims to have been led into the scheme by "Satan," is unlikely ever again to don his country's cap, and he may well have helped end the careers of some of his most promising players. The financial scandal may in fact be a reflection of changes in the game over the past three decades during which it evolved into a multimillion-dollar industry, particularly the lucrative one-day form that...