Word: enterances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SHIPBOARD PROCESSING. When Washington had officials do initial screening of Haitians on Coast Guard cutters from September 1981 to mid-1991, only 24 of the 24,589 interviewed were found to have a credible enough claim of persecution to enter the U.S. to pursue their case. Clinton has ordered officials to conduct full interviews aboard larger chartered vessels. They would decide on the spot, unhampered by lawyers or the lengthy due process that often prolongs cases in the U.S. for years, who deserves refugee status. Steven Forrester, a lawyer with Miami's Haitian Refugee Center, questions the process: "Terrified refugees...
...Russia, and has even been discussing new contracts with U.S. companies. A loophole in the sanctions allows foreign companies to set up deals with Iraq that will take effect once the U.N. embargo is lifted. The French, Italians, Russians and Turks have interpreted this to mean they can enter contractual relationships; the U.S. has not. "It would be stupid for us to be the last ones in, when everyone else is lining up to sign contracts for Iraq's reconstruction," says General Jeannou Lacaze, retired chief of staff of the French armed forces...
...said technology development will be key tothe success of the reforms. For example, as TheTimes noted recently, many Indian softwarecompanies have already begun to enter the globalarena--offering large numbers of engineers andboasting high rates of productivity...
...author of the book Computer Wars, argues that IBM under Gerstner still clings to outmoded technology out of fear of alienating its vast base of existing customers who have invested heavily in the older systems. "Somewhere between one and four years from now the company is going to enter another period of crisis that will be technological, and not fixable by financial and organizational changes," Ferguson predicts...
...some celebrities enter the confessional business motivated by something more substantial than the prospect of publicity: the sunny conviction that the saga of their cruel lives will serve as a morality tale...