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...convincing argument for a radical new view of pensions as not simply the deferred income of millions of hard working Americans, but a source of power and welath that could provide the solution to the capital squeeze facing the Graybelt. Pension assets, they point out, now constitute the largest single pool of capital in the world--over $500 billion. But this pool is almost solely controlled by the bankers and brokers who send it to the Sunbelt and to Taiwan. Because pensions are basically propping up the stock market--because the Fortune 500 are using those assets to contribute...
Puerto Ricans are the largest - and most beleaguered - national group among the estimated 2.6 million Hispanics in and near New York City.* They are, of course, not ordinary immigrants but U.S. citizens, as are all 3.3 million inhabitants of the Puerto Rican commonwealth. Despite that advantage, the Puerto Rican experience today is all too often one of blighted hopes. Says Carlos Garcia, 20, a school dropout and part-time carpenter on Manhattan's Lower East Side: "I expected a West Side Story, and never...
...women are not harlots. They are illegal immigrants (known euphemistically these days as "undocumented aliens") who have crossed the Rio Grande from neighboring Juarez, Mexico, looking for work as maids. Their usual rate: around $25 a week. Because of its proximity to Ju?z, El Paso is the second largest crossing point for undocumented aliens in the U.S. The largest is Chula Vista, Calif., which shares part of its sewerage system with neighboring Tijuana. Aliens have been known to crawl through the common drainage pipes to reach...
Pressure for weakening the act is likely to build. A dozen major federal construction projects now on the drawing boards could be stymied under the law as it now stands. (Largest among that dangerous dozen is Maine's proposed $559 million Dickey Lincoln Dam, which environmentalists contend threatens the Furbish lousewort, a weed protected under the law.) In addition, the Interior Department may add 1,000 plants and 100 animals to its endangered species list, a move that could eventually hold up even more construction. Environmentally concerned legislators in the House last week were scrambling to gain support...
...said the graduate program for public policy, involving the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate Schools of Education, Design and Public Health, was "the largest and most important new initiative that has taken place at Harvard" in the last few years...