Word: guam
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Moreover, the law has failed to forestall an epidemic of outright fraud and abuse. The Western regional INS office, which covers California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam, has handed out $1 million in fines to heedless employers in the past two years. But with 400 agents in the region, the INS hardly has the manpower to wage a serious crackdown and thus goes after only the most blatant offenders -- and many companies and illegal aliens are willing to take their chances. A survey by the University of California at San Diego's Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, for example, found...
...Calif., Linde, 29, is commander of a C-141 transport plane, a mammoth, 75-ton, four-engine workhorse that carries everything from weapons, paratroopers and medical supplies to Bob Hope and his entourage. Leading a crew of six, Linde routinely carries out five-day missions to bases in Hawaii, Guam and the Azores. Her dream, however, is to fly the fighter jets that she once trained others to operate. But since those elite birds are designated for combat, women have been barred from flying them on Air Force missions. "It was always frustrating knowing that I couldn...
...more aggressive, imaginative and socially savvy than almost anyone has given it credit for. McDonald's is now trimming the fat and shaking the salt from its food, installing sleek outlets in U.S. airports and hospitals, taking its burgers to such far-flung locales as Yugoslavia and Guam and serving as a leading U.S. employer of minorities and the elderly. Thanks to its current vitality, McDonald's is maintaining its growth while such rivals as Burger King and Wendy's appear to be slowing down...
...Ohio three teachers who taught in the same high school classroom developed the disease. So did six people living on the same hillside behind the Berkeley campus of the University of California. The most widely studied clusters are located in the western Pacific, particularly on the island of Guam, where ALS was once at least 50 times as common as in the continental U.S. Last year Peter Spencer, a neurotoxicologist at New York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, offered a solution to the mystery of the Guamanian cases when he traced them to a toxin found in cycad...
More than taking courses, working, and even boxing, Matthews loves to travel. "If I had the money I'd spend the rest of my life traveling around the world meeting people," he says. As an amateur boxer in the Navy, he boxed from Guam to Japan fighting American, Japanese and Korean service men. Besides the All-Navy featherweight title, this tour gave Matthews has a special interest in the Far East, particularly China and Japan. He plans to take a trip to China in 1988. Matthews has gathered a list of more than 30 people to contact in China, most...