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...foreigners in a service-oriented business: tourism. Last week the Government reported the first-ever U.S. travel surplus. During 1989 foreign visitors spent $34.3 billion in the U.S., or $450 million more than Americans spent abroad. The U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration predicts that in 1990 the surplus will exceed $1.5 billion...
When a friend later said, "You know what they say about guys with large resumes..." I let my imagination run wild. I soon learned, however, that guys with large resumes had small and unsuccessful job interviews. No matter how much you accomplish, your resume must not exceed one page. This is not because conciseness is an absolute virtue. Rather, scientific studies reveal that the dolts assigned to read resumes have very short attention spans...
...tack holes in a wooden slat or uses tape on a painted wall is contributing to an eventual need for repair, and thus should incur an appropriate charge. But this charge shouldn't be 20 dollars per tack. The sums my dormmates have to pay for their sins grossly exceed the amount of damage done...
...were the first installment of what Britain has announced will be a mass forced repatriation of Vietnamese boat people. Those who are to be expelled from the crown colony -- the number could exceed 40,000 -- fail to qualify as political refugees (as opposed to economic migrants) and are therefore considered illegal immigrants. Under an agreement between London and Hanoi, Britain will pay Viet Nam some $620 for each returning boat person in exchange for the promise that the returnees will not be persecuted...
Cristiani's top officers appear to have convinced him that the F.M.L.N. must be decimated before it will return to the negotiating table. That is probably a forlorn hope, even though the rebels' losses in the offensive may exceed 1,000. If nothing else, the rebels proved they can disrupt life in El Salvador whenever they choose. They have also shown that the government is all too willing to use its heavy firepower when the war is being fought in poor neighborhoods but is reluctant to strafe and bomb a rich enclave like Escalon, where support for the governing ARENA...