Word: marylander
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...seats now held by the G.O.P. They feel that the large blocs of registered Democrats in New York and Pennsylvania will help them unseat Republican incumbents in those states. In addition, the G.O.P. may lose Senate races in North Carolina, where John East is ailing, and in Maryland, where Charles Mathias, 63, may decide to retire. Laxalt's seat was considered secure by Nevada pollsters. With Laxalt out of the race, said Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Kirk, "we have moved to at least a fifty-fifty chance to add Nevada to our victory list." Laxalt acknowledged that...
Reagan approved this approach and told McFarlane, who knew Berri from his % days as a special Middle East envoy in 1983, to use this relationship to put pressure on the Amal leader. In the middle of the night, from his suburban Maryland home, McFarlane spoke with Berri. During the 30-minute conversation, he passed along the message that had been worked out at the NSC meeting. Washington would not join in arrangements to free Israel's 776 Lebanese prisoners while Americans were being held, McFarlane told Berri. "The thrust was to get across to Berri that the Shi'ite prisoners...
...take employment away from Americans or legal aliens is more complex. Many experts argue that workers without documents are concentrated in undesirable jobs that pay the minimum wage of $3.35 per hour, or sometimes less. Says Julian Simon, a professor of business and social science at the University of Maryland: "Illegals take jobs at which natives turn up their noses because they have other options." Rice's Huddle contends, however, that many illegal immigrants have enough skills to land jobs that pay more than the minimum wage. In a study of 200 illegal aliens working in construction in the Houston...
...with very little money is to attract the confidence of big institutions to back me by putting together projects that work. In the U.S., if you have a good idea, people will support you." Ebrahimi, who received a master's degree in civil engineering from the University of Maryland in 1966, once ran a manufactured- housing concern in Iran that had 5,000 employees...
...exactly a terrorist act, but in a week filled with political violence, it raised fresh concerns about the security of U.S. officials. Edward Doster, 20, a former Maryland racetrack stable boy, showed his dependent's pass at State Department headquarters and was allowed to enter without putting his gym bag through metal detectors. Upon reaching the seventh-floor "corridor of power," he went into a men's room and assembled a rifle from the bag's contents. Then he confronted his mother Carole, 44, a secretary in the office of State Department Counselor Edward Derwinski. After an exchange of words...