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...followed by sizable minorities from El Salvador, Guatemala and Haiti -- but Canada and Poland also contribute a good share. The illegals cross the porous border from Baja California, heading north to Los Angeles, where the wages are relatively high and the questions relatively few. They come from China, in coffin ships like the Golden Venture, in quest of asylum. They fly in from Ireland, willing to pull a few pints or pound a few nails in exchange for some greenbacks and, if they're lucky, a green card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shadow of the Law | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...only sure thing is that it is going to put the last nail in the coffin for Mexican rural communities," he said. "The small farming communities will not be able to compete with the corporate large scale farms of Illinois and Iowa...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: NAFTA: The Pros, the Cons and the Compromises | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

...finally driving the last nail into the coffin of Scheme Z," said Kerasiotes...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Angell, | Title: New Traffic Plan Draws Fire From City Officials | 11/17/1993 | See Source »

...taking a pivotal position on the world stage. Because North Korea's communist dictator Kim Il Sung nears death, one of the last communist holdouts could soon enter negotiations with its southern neighbor to reunify the country and drive yet another, perhaps the final, nail in the Cold War coffin...

Author: By Jay Kim, | Title: Greasing Korean Business | 11/2/1993 | See Source »

...from him." Nicole's grownup demeanor disappears, however, when she starts to read aloud a letter she wrote in the year after her mother died: "Dear Mom . . . I miss you so much. That day at the funeral I just looked at you, and I saw someone else in the coffin. I was saying to myself, 'That can't be my mother.' She is still in the hospital . . . I knew people had to die. But I never thought about you dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Aids Strikes Parents | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

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