Word: certain
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...obvious element of humiliation in the fact that we are not able to provide jobs for our own people. The only way many Mexicans can find a decent job is to go to the U.S. On the other hand, it's a fact that we feel we have a certain right to do that, because nobody is forcing American employers to give Mexican workers a job, and a lot of Mexican immigrants do jobs that Americans would not do, at a lower wage and under conditions that Americans would not accept...
...society, as of today. So inevitably that leads everyone in Mexico to view the problem of drugs as less important, and less directly relevant to Mexico, than the way the U.S. perceives the problem. Whether this is fair or not fair, nice or not nice, is irrelevant. To a certain extent this perception is changing in certain parts of the country, not because there is a drug-addiction problem emerging but because there is a level of criminality associated with drug trafficking that is reaching alarming proportions...
...vote of 4 to 1, the city council passed an ordinance prohibiting the manufacture, sale and use of virtually all ozone-depleting chemicals. Banned are plastic food packagings made with CFCs, certain types of building insulation and some solvents widely used for cleaning printed circuit boards in personal computers. Most consumer spray-can products are permitted; the majority of these are no longer propelled with CFCs. Refrigerators and automobile air conditioners are excluded, since no readily available substitute exists for the hazardous compounds they...
Such rumblings indicate that the days of clubby back-room politics are threatened. A maturing electorate has already shown itself willing to risk its habitual reliance on single-party rule. The emergence of a strong Socialist opposition is certain to disturb the Japanese political debate, complicating management of the country's economy and its relations with foreign nations. It is also likely to plunge Japan into a long period of uncertainty as the country wrestles with political instability for the first time in decades. At the very least, the Liberal Democrats cannot hope to regain their majority in the upper...
Lithuania's Catholics have also regained church buildings, established their own bimonthly magazine and, as of three weeks ago, are producing a TV show that is seen each Sunday. The man responsible for the new religious freedoms, Mikhail Gorbachev, will visit Italy in November and is almost certain to pay a historic visit to the Polish Pontiff. It would be the first meeting ever between a Pope and a Soviet leader...