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...already spilled across the border and could only be solved with American cooperation. The growing unemployment in Mexico had increased the number of illegal immigrants to the United States. This unemployment was not only a result of domestic mismanagement, but was also because the United States, Mexico's largest customer, foreign investor and creditor, had reduced these transactions since the recession began. The result: lower employment in Mexico and increased illegal crossing to the United States...
...first assault occurred shortly after 11 a.m., when seven Hanafis, led by Khaalis himself, burst into the headquarters of B'nai B'rith, the world's largest and oldest Jewish service organization. Moving upward floor by floor, they seized dozens of hostages, shooting at some, slapping and cutting others, shouting that they were ready to die for Allah. The hostages were herded into a conference room, the windows of which were then painted over...
...taxable income, whichever is greater. Says IRS Spokesman Larry Batdorf: "A lot of people are confused over that." For that and other reasons, more taxpayers are turning to consultants, and paying a fee to get their forms filled out. H&R Block, Inc., the nation's largest such service, expects a big increase in business this year over last. The U.S. Tax Court will also be kept busy for years interpreting the 1976 law's provisions. Here, for dismay or delight, are some of the major changes, beginning with those likely to affect the most people...
Barber added that Williams stabilized finances, improved laboratories, and established the Tozzer Library. The library's anthropological collection is one of the largest in the United States...
Perhaps such unskippable revelations fail to make your heart throb. Well, let us peruse the headlines of the Enquirer, an infinitely more respectable tabloid which boasts "the largest circulation of any paper in America." There is an account of escape from a bullet-riddled helicopter flying through the air, followed by the author's religious conversion. (Shades of Chuck Colson!) Then golf star Gary Player's "recent brush with death" when he was almost struck by lightning on a South African golf course. (Presumably he avoided other unimportant violence in the area, which the space-conscious Enquirer issue fails...