Word: dumps
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These visas will be distributed by an unusual method: the winners will be the first 40,000 qualifying people whose applications are received after midnight on Oct. 14 at a post-office box in Arlington, Va. Immigrants and their lawyers are converging on Arlington to dump thousands of applications directly at the post office. About 40% of the slots are reserved for people from Ireland, which reflects not only the clout of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy but also recognition of the problem posed by the presence of as many as 100,000 illegal Irish immigrants...
...real estate and automaking. As profits went into a tailspin during the past six months, Smith sought to raise fresh funds with a new stock issue. But word leaked to the press, and shareholders feared a dilution of their stock. The investor backlash inspired the company's board to dump Smith. Such quick response to shareholder unrest is unusual in Britain but catching on fast. Still, Smith will be paid more than $500,000 a year until mid-1993. Some American traditions are less unpleasant than others...
...federal court have nearly tripled in 30 years. Quayle also trumpeted a 1989 Forbes magazine estimate that the annual cost to the nation of all litigation and related insurance is more than $80 billion. As Walter Olson, the author of The Litigation Explosion, argues, "A litigator can come around, dump a pile of papers on your front lawn and you can go literally broke trying to respond...
...they made it too easy to dump the children. Twenty-four percent of the children in this country are growing up without fathers. At one time, society viewed divorced fathers as somewhat irresponsible. Now we see them as eligible males. We have forgotten that while marriages may not last, parenthood is forever. We are living with the appalling consequences of all this neglect. Teenage suicides have tripled since 1960. Since '71, the number of teenagers hospitalized for psychiatric care has increased from 16,000 to 263,000. More than 80% of them have no father at home...
...problem could win it all. I know one man who had to bury two old mattresses in his pasture, like dead cows. Anyway, in all primary seasons up to now, you would have found Gary Hart or some other left-winger with good teeth staked out at the town dump, ready to shake your hand...