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...cold war's end gave Americans only a kind of abstract triumph -- and left a void. The collapse of communism and the Soviet empire suddenly removed the dark moral counterweight by which Americans measured their own virtue. Chronic recession, the rise of Japanese and European economic competitors, the vast inflow of immigrants from non-European sources (strangers to the older American tradition), the shrinking of the buffering Atlantic and Pacific oceans (jet travel, satellites, global distribution of goods), all these have eaten away at the long American smugness, the postwar sense of superiority, of grace...
...depressed inflow of pizza boxes in recent weeks diminished his hopes of filling the stairwell, and a pack of rodents that invaded Matthews over spring break forced a more public unveiling, he said...
...there anything you can do to slow the population inflow...
...businesses and even governments are often reluctant to impose regulations to keep out launderers. One reason is that a thriving financial industry brings jobs and income. South Florida's 100 international banks employ 3,500 workers and pump $800 million into the local economy. Even more appealing is the inflow of foreign capital. During the spend-and-borrow era of the 1980s, the gusher of flight capital into the U.S. from Latin America helped finance America's deficits. As in Hollywood, not many politicians were concerned about where the money was coming from. Alarmed by the tide, House Democrat John...
Fueling the racist rhetoric is the fact that Vancouver's prosperity has been boosted by the heightened inflow of immigrants and money from Hong Kong. Encouraged by Canada's relatively liberal immigration policies, more and more Hong Kong Chinese are arriving in Vancouver to put down roots before 1997, when the British colony reverts to Chinese sovereignty. That does not please some of greater Vancouver's 1.4 million residents, who see the influx -- 5,000 Hong Kong immigrants came to the region last year -- as a threat to their life-style. Critics grouse about an "Asian invasion" that has sent...