Word: mariana
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Welcome to Saipan, the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands, a chain east of the Philippines. And, yes, it has been a U.S. territory since the end of World War II. Li Li is one of 40,000 foreign contract workers, mostly from China, Bangladesh and the Philippines, shipped in to service a garment industry that exploits Saipan's exemption from a number of American labor and immigration controls. This allows the garment factories, most run by Chinese or South Korean firms, to pay foreign laborers substantially less than the minimum wage but still export nearly $1 billion worth...
Gannett News found that five months after the Sugar Cane League took 37 congressional staff members to Florida, Congress voted to maintain sugar price supports. And now that 60 legislators and staff members have gone to the Northern Mariana Islands, known for cheap immigrant labor for the garment industry as well as white sandy beaches, we haven't heard much lately about applying labor laws to any sweatshops that this U.S. commonwealth might harbor...
...Harvard Crimson has more depth than the Mariana Trench. The players do not have to rely on Feaster to win games...
Take Mary Andes, 69, a former schoolteacher in Virginia, Maryland and Guam with a lifelong love of flying, who earned her pilot's license in 1981. Today Andes hops around the Mariana Islands in the Pacific at the controls of a Cherokee-6 commuter plane for Guam-based Freedom Air. Then there is June Bond, 72, a retired music teacher and an experienced bookkeeper who puts in 40-hour weeks in the accounting department of the Rosicrucian Museum in San Jose, Calif. "I want to be part of the world and not part of some pity party," Bond says...
...federal judge has ruled that much of California's controversial Proposition 187, which denies public services to undocumented immigrants, is unconstitutional. United States District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer ruled that the state proposition is an illegal attempt to regulate immigration. San Francisco Bureau Chief David Jackson reports: "California has an enormous number of illegal aliens, and 187 was an attempt to slow their influx. But as this judge's ruling illustrates, there are a lot of complex legal questions involved, and this is a long way from being resolved. Prop 187 has never really been implemented. It was virtually frozen...