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There has been talk in Congress of extending to Latin America the Eastern Hemisphere ceiling of 20,000 immigrants from any one country. That would reduce the number of legal immigrants from Mexico by about two-thirds?but it might correspondingly increase the flow of illegal immigrants. There has also been talk (indeed there may soon be a law) of making it a crime to employ an illegal immigrant. That might?or might not?end the large-scale exploitation of Latin Americans. Officially, the laws governing today's immigrants proclaim that the U.S. needs only professional and highly skilled labor...
...Without French help, he warned, the Americans might give up their fight and join with the British to take away France's rich sugar islands in the West Indies. "Believe me, Sire, the saving of a few millions today may soon cause a great deal of blood to flow and money to be lost to France ... This danger [of war with Britain] can be averted if the plan be adopted which I have so often proposed, to aid the Americans secretly...
Arthur Boucot, professor of Geology at Oregon State University, wrote to the Radcliffe chapter urging Gray's election. He described her as "a critical-minded, productive, first-class scientist who has produced a steady flow of incisive, well-reasoned publications, that have materially advanced her field...
...remedy was prescribed last week in a 7-1 landmark decision by the Supreme Court that lifted blanket bans on advertising prescription-drug prices. As part of its ruling, the court also made clear for the first time that the free flow of commercial information is generally protected by the First Amendment so long as the information is truthful and legitimate. Wrote Justice Harry Blackmun for the majority: "Advertising, however tasteless and excessive it may seem, is nonetheless dissemination of information...
...enough proved surprisingly accurate. One reason is a change in what Burns calls "financial technology": corporations now may open interest-bearing savings accounts and quickly shift the funds, when needed, into checking accounts. That and other means of switching funds electronically from one account to another speed up the flow of money between debtors and creditors, and have the effect of increasing the money supply more than the official figures show...