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...begin with, Singapore is an offshore republic that tightly limits immigration. Imagine crime-ridden Los Angeles, to which Singapore is sometimes contrasted, with hardly any inflow of the hard-luck, often desperate fortune seekers who flock to big cities. Imagine in the same way Jakarta or Shanghai. Beyond that, Singapore began its life as a British colony designed to serve as a shipping, administrative and financial center. Today it is a highly skilled society without the urban sprawl and rural poverty that afflict larger nations. An analogue might be Manhattan incorporated as a republic between the Battery and 96th Street...
...however, as the city ricochets through its biggest boom since the Frank-and-Dino Rat Pack days of the '50s and '60s -- the tourist inflow has nearly doubled over the past decade, and the area remains among America's fastest growing -- the hypereclectic 24-hour-a-day fantasy-themed party machine no longer seems so very exotic or extreme. High-tech spectacle, convenience, classlessness, loose money, a Nikes-and-T-shirt dress code: that's why immigrants flock to the U.S.; that's why some 20 million Americans (and 2 million foreigners) went to Vegas in 1992. "Las Vegas exists...
Many Americans are confused about whether the continuous inflow of immigrants makes the country stronger or weaker. Economic studies abound claiming that immigration spurs new businesses and new taxpayers. With no less conviction, others contend that immigrants and their children evade taxes and overburden local welfare, health and education systems. To compound the confusion, many Americans believe -- wrongly -- that more foreigners enter the country illegally than do legally. As the doubts grow, so does the potential for backlash. Polls show that almost two-thirds of Americans favor new laws to cut back on all immigrants and asylum seekers -- legal...
...Council and other professors have endorsed the benefits both to allow retired professors to remain involved with University life and also to continue the inflow of new professors into the different departments, Secretary to the Faculty Council John B. Fox '59 said...
...higher potential returns on equities. Since 1990, individuals have shifted an estimated $100 billion out of stingy bank CDs into the stock market. More than a quarter of the $120 billion they invested in mutual funds during that period has also ended up in the market. The sudden inflow helped propel the Dow Jones average to new heights last May, when it broke the 3400 barrier for the first time. By propping up the market with their new money, investors like Brown may have prevented or postponed the steep correction that analysts think is probably inevitable...