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Like the tax code, the immigration law will depend on employers' cooperation to work; like the tax code, it imposes strict penalties for noncompliance. For the twelve months after June 1, employers will risk only a citation for any violations. After that, they can be hit with penalties that range from $250 to $2,000 for each illegal worker hired. For repeated offenses, the fine will rise to as much as $10,000 for each illegal alien. Employers, however, cannot be fined for illegals hired before Nov. 6, 1986, the date on which the bill was passed...
None of the protesters were arrested by the Cornell police squad but a university spokesman said protesters are still liable to be arrested after the fact. The university videotaped the protest because the students were violating the Campus Code of Conduct, said Dean of Students David Drinkwater...
...challenge last week was to tell customers the difference between the new and old rules -- and to promote new clients. Fidelity Investments, an $80 billion Boston-based mutual-fund group, gave its round-the-clock crew of telephone operators special training in how to explain the new tax code to would-be investors. Citibank (1986 revenues: $144.8 billion) programmed computer terminals in 200 branches to answer questions about IRAs and responded to thousands of queries...
Since their formation in 1775, the Marines have evolved into an arm of American foreign policy based on rapier-sharp discipline, a powerful code of integrity and a lustrous reputation as the nation's truest warriors. With just 196,000 members, the Marine Corps regards itself as the elite military service, though it is technically an arm of the Navy. But what most distinguishes the Marine Corps, forging the powerful esprit and the ideal of Semper Fidelis, is the basic training...
...assumed that Marine guards let Soviet agents into the bubble to plant bugs there too (two new bubbles have since been built). The greatest damage would have been wrought if a bug in the encoding equipment did indeed allow the Soviets to crack the U.S. code and read all messages going into and out of the embassy. Presumably these would have included U.S. negotiating positions. Says John Barron, author of a book about the KGB: "Give me access to your ciphers, and you won't have any secrets...