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...Mexicans who are living illegally in the U.S. "It's time to get real," Fox said last week in Milwaukee to the annual convention of the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic civil rights group. "The time has come for us to turn migration from a source of friction into a shared responsibility that is mutually beneficial...
...Washington wants at least an unwritten agreement on this score, because it will be damaging for the U.S. to be perceived as having violated an international treaty, and establishing a precedent. But at the end of the day, despite the friction over NMD, the relationship between Washington and Moscow is a lot warmer than it has been for some time. A Russian foreign ministry official today told me, "We like these Republicans; we know exactly where we stand with them." And that's a Soviet tradition...
...raped her early Friday morning in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Chatan, not far from the Kadena base. Details of the alleged crime are sketchy, but for several hours police questioned an Air Force technical sergeant identified as a suspect. "We need measures to prevent unnecessary friction or bad feelings between the Japanese people and the U.S. forces," Koizumi said after arriving in Washington...
Stability and speed are two canceling factors in terms of boat design. The lower a boat sits in the water, the more stability and water friction ensues. So as one increases a boat’s stability, one decreases the boat’s speed...
...Today they kibitz freely about each other's projects, but friction is minimized because each supplies a different emphasis to the partnership. "Lear can put words in your mouth like nobody else," says Dick Van Dyke, who has starred in Yorkin and Lear efforts for both TV and movies. "Yorkin, as a director, is the ideal interpreter of Lear's writing." Lear is more preoccupied with creative matters. Yorkin, with more business acumen, is by his own admission "the heavy in financial deals...