Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Barbarian, The Terminator). He became a U.S. citizen in 1983. "I went back home and realized that I liked my country, but for me America was the better place to be. Everybody thought big in comparison to European thinking. Everyone had great hopes, a positive outlook. There was no limit to whatever you wanted to do. I educated myself to be an American...
...Yankelovich, Skelly & White Inc.,* only 27% agreed with the idea that "America should keep its doors open to people who wish to immigrate to the U.S. because that is what our heritage is all about." Two-thirds agreed that "this philosophy is no longer reasonable, and we should strictly limit the number." Some 56% said the number of legal immigrants was too high, and 75% wanted illegal immigrants to be tracked down. On the other hand, 66% approved of taking in people being persecuted in their homelands...
...illegals across the border. Says Commissioner Nelson: "Once word spreads along the border that there are no jobs for illegals in the U.S., the magnet no longer exists." Officials see little difficulty in enforcing the sanctions. Says INS Spokesman Duke Austin: "This will be like the 55- m.p.h. speed limit. Most motorists comply. There will be some who won't, and we know who those people are right now. So our task will be greater, but not so much as one might think...
...offense-dominated deterrence" has yet to be disproved. Conversely, the technical feasibility and strategic wisdom of substituting defenses for offenses has yet to be proved. Says former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, an early proponent of restrictions on ABMs: "The human mind has yet to conceive of a way to limit offense while at the same time permitting unlimited defense...
...transformations of flesh into meat, nose into snout, jaw into mandible and mouth into a kind of all-purpose orifice with deadly molars, all of which aspire, in the common view, to the condition of documents. Here, one has been told over and over again, is the outer limit of expressionism: these are the signs of the pessimistic alienation to which a history of extreme mass suffering has reduced the human image. The collective psyche has imploded, leaving only the blurred individual meat, hideously generalized. The paintings "reflect" horror. Their power is in their mirroring. They are narratives, though...