Word: lows
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...because of the high tech industry's even more dubious claims that a labor shortage exists in the first place. According to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 85 percent of the workers hired under the so-called H-1B visa program are not exceptionally skilled at all, and are instead low-level computer programmers making less than $75,000 a year. Are we really so lacking as to need to import 115,000 workers to do this kind of work...
...poll by the independent Field Institute put Davis in first place, with 19% of the vote--even though half of those polled had never seen one of his commercials. Checchi was stuck in second place, with 17%, and Harman dropped from first to third, with 11%. The percentages are low because the June 2 primary is open to all voters; the Democrats will share the ballot with the G.O.P. candidate, state attorney general Dan Lungren, who is running virtually unopposed (and took 27% in the poll). To win the Democratic nomination, a candidate needs only about 25% of the vote...
...biggest drawback for some buyers may be the lack of a floppy-disk drive (most software comes on CDs now anyway) and the 33.6-Kbps modem is poky even for a low-end machine. But many analysts think the iMac will be a winner. "It's a spectacular machine," says independent market analyst Pieter Hartsook. "Apple has been living off its user base for years, but this is going to attract people who don't even own a computer." Eric Lewis, an analyst for International Data Corp., agrees: "It will give consumers a reason at least to take a look...
...students a commencement speech that is both memorable and useful. It consists of a list of jobs that are readily available to young college graduates, but are rarely, if ever, considered to be within their reach. The mistake made by most of you is that you aim too low--assistants to administrative assistants and the like--whereas the positions I am about to describe are not only exalted and high paying; they also require little or no work, experience, training or knowledge. Thus they are exceptionally well suited to graduating seniors. Here, then, is a sort of "unclassifieds" of exciting...
...reason is the economy. Historically, Californians engage in immigrant bashing during recessions, and in 1994 the state's economy was reeling from defense cutbacks. A Los Angeles Times poll conducted then found roughly 20% of Californians upbeat about the economy. Today, with state unemployment near an eight-year low, that percentage has more than tripled. The second reason is that Latinos, it turns out, do vote. And they have visited retribution on the California Republican Party for the attacks of 1994. The Latino share of the California electorate has nearly doubled this decade, and the portion of it going...