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...scrambling for a chance at legal residency. Other reforms will almost triple, from 54,000 to 140,000, the number of skilled workers who can enter the U.S. legally each year because American employers sponsor them. As a result, businesses and universities will have a greatly expanded chance to import professionals they cannot find at home. The growth of the U.S. labor force is expected to slow over the coming decade, which will make more room for skilled foreign workers -- especially in fields that are expected to show the greatest shortages, like engineering, mathematics, chemistry and physics...
...through a vacuum process at the end or by limiting the rate of fermentation), making it more palatable to the discerning drinker. The appeal of Sharp's is its yeasty, rich flavor, while Heileman's Kingsbury, once the market leader, is somewhat metallic but still very drinkable. Kaliber, an import from Guinness, has a fine, toasty aroma, and O'Doul's has the straightforward and pleasant taste of a regular domestic beer...
...victory of capitalism in Russia is the victory of youth. These young people who defeated a coup and who brought down the statues can risk forming the Russian stock exchange, or organizing an import-export deal for the destruction of the Communist bureaucracy because they don't belong to it. They can ask for free-floating currency because they don't have any life savings tied up in rubles...
...example what they'll do is send the U.S. Army down to get the cocaine growers in Columbia and simultaneously they'll raise the import tax on Columbian coffee. Simultaneously, it was like the schizophrenia of the decade...
Despite lapses into protectionism, the U.S. has generally been both a promoter and a beneficiary of free trade. It grants 159 of the 170 countries on earth most-favored-nation status, or MFN, subjecting their products to roughly the same relatively low import duties...