Word: meagerness
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Blacks tend to regard the immigrants as uninvited guests at a meager meal. Many believe the newcomers' gains come at the expense of blacks and that a "racist" system benefits the immigrants. Adding to the bitterness is the black perception that America's newest citizens are embracing one of its oldest traits, racial prejudice. Comedian Richard Pryor does a routine depicting a group of Indochinese boat people taking part in their first citizenship class. Lesson No. 1: the correct pronunciation of the word nigger...
...less a problem than a manifestation of American economic dynamism. "We have always depended on some low-wage labor," he says. "The illegal alien situation today is the continuation of a pattern." Muller's assertion may help explain one of the glaring contradictions of current U.S. immigration policy: the meager funding given to the INS to apply existing laws. The INS enforcement budget for 1985 comes to only $366 million for a staff of 7,599, less than a third the number of officers with the New York City police department. That lack of resources, acknowledges a senior INS official...
...pile of bones, six teeth, some clumps of hair and a pair of rotting trousers. Such are the meager contents of the grave at Embu. Somewhere in this grisly heap, forensic scientists last week sought to find a series of identifying fragments of the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. The task, experts say, is a tough one, even with some of the best forensic minds in the world applying their talents. There is no doubt that certain facts about the skeleton will be established. The question is, will a complete identity emerge? Even in the most difficult cases, says Clyde Snow...
Across the street from the Common shows is the Orpheum Theater which has a fairly meager line-up this summer compared to previous seasons. Local rock bands will compete there this Friday June 28 and ex-Magazine leader, Howard Jones, will highlight the Saturday June 29 show...
...Congress who were once again considering the resumption of aid to the contra rebels struggling against Ortega's Sandinista regime. "It was a dark day for freedom," Reagan scolded, "when, after the Soviet Union spent $500 million to impose Communism in Nicaragua, the U.S. Congress could not support a meager $14 million for the freedom fighters in Nicaragua who were opposed to that totalitarian government...