Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blacks are upset by both kinds of Cubans. Stuck on the bottom rung of South Florida's economic ladder, they have always resented the more prosperous Cuban minority. With the arrival of the Marielitos, blacks feared that they would lose out in the scramble for the few low-skill jobs avail able in the region. Even in Liberty City, the black enclave in North Miami where 18 people died in last year's riot, the Latin influence is apparent. White store owners who abandoned their businesses are being replaced by Latin landlords. "The only things blacks have in Miami...
...fire department sent three engine companies, two ladder trucks, one rescue truck and a deputy to the Castle. Five firemen, three of whom carried axes, went upstairs in the building to confirm that there was no fire...
Regardless of the team's success this season, Kiam, Bridgeland and Co. will probably not see an NCAA tournament. They'll continue their on-and-off practice schedule through the winter, battling freshmen for ladder positions, and when spring arrives, there will be another trip south and maybe a few varsity openings during reading period...
...sent to the bathroom to perform my ablutions as a Muslim before the execution. There I met two other condemned political prisoners. One said they had both tried and failed to squeeze through a narrow opening into what looked like a ventilating shaft. To make a ladder for me, one stood on the other's shoulders. I climbed them both and just scraped through the hole. I am thin as it is, and the loss of 40 Ibs. under torture helped...
Labor union leaders and many politicians charge that the uninvited foreigners have taken jobs away from Americans and flattened wages at the lower end of the economic ladder. Says Harold Washington, a black Congressman from Chicago: "The mere presence of a large number of illegal aliens is depressing wages generally, and forcing unskilled blacks to take dirtier, lower-paying jobs." In most industries that employ large numbers of menial workers, labor law violations can be found. Some of the worst offenders...