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...That's good news for high tech companies that don't want to pay much for labor, and bad news for older American tech workers who will continue to be priced out of the market. Indeed, the White House has threatened to veto the bill because of its dubious effect on American workers, and because of the high tech industry's even more dubious claims that a labor shortage exists in the first place. According to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 85 percent of the workers hired under the so-called H-1B visa program are not exceptionally skilled...
...balance, technological forecasts have often proved remarkably accurate, in outline if not in detail. By contrast, the political forecasts--whether the dreams of brotherhood or the nightmares of Big Brother--have been far more dubious...
DIED. WRIGHT MORRIS, 88, writer-photographer of the middle-American gothic, who spun Fargo-like tales of small-town strangeness about his native Nebraska; in Mill Valley, Calif. His 33 books netted awards, but his plainspoken prose didn't sell well, dooming Morris to the dubious distinction of being one of America's most admired but least read men of letters...
...such as creating an independent appeals process for taxpayers, make good sense and cost no money. Others, like putting a time limit on failure-to-pay penalties, might play well in Peoria but will cost the administration a total of $18 billion over 10 years. Some clauses sound downright dubious: Who wants to tell the voters that the Senate just handed the IRS 40 new executives...
...make the housing contract Patently unfair and everyone would still sign it. Rather than read the fine print to examine personal liability, Harvard students focus only on the big picture: sign this housing contract or immerse yourself in the Cambridge rental market. Contracts signed under such duress are of dubious legitimacy...