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...John founded their business, Louie was an electrical engineer. It’s not clear what John did. He evades the question, claiming that he needs to maintain a tough reputation. The stripping business is a quick-shifting world, and the rumors of John’s mob ties deter others from stealing his customers by sending their strippers to parties that John has already booked...
...also asserted that the failure to secure Snoop Dogg this Spring would not deter future concert efforts...
...students who wish to study abroad. Encouraging departments to be more flexible with requirements for the students who are studying abroad is also a step in the right direction. Most important, the CEA also recognized the unique commitment that Harvard students have to their extracurricular activities, commitments which would deter many students from skipping entire semesters. To counter this reluctance, one of the CEA’s main proposals was extending financial aid for summer study abroad programs, making summer study an option for many more students...
...country's turbulence in 1960, when he walked the silent streets of Sharpeville hours after 69 blacks were killed by police gunfire. He covered the 1976 riots in Soweto, and in the past several weeks has again dodged township mobs, and a few rocks. But the danger does not deter Hawthorne. "The story is its own magnet," he says. "There are real people living here, black and white, and they have no choice but to coexist in peace or die together...
...commend TIME for addressing the vitally important subject of U.S. immigration policy. Comprehensive immigration reform must be enacted promptly. Not only are employer sanctions needed to deter the immense flow of illegal aliens to the U.S., but some overall limit on legal immigration also must be established. Otherwise the U.S. will face the same overpopulation-related problems now so obvious in the countries from which most immigrants are coming. M. Rupert Cutler, Executive Director The Environmental Fund Washington...