Word: michael
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Behind the mass influx are some stark economic figures: half of Mexico's 18 million-member labor force is unemployed; a devalued peso has sent prices there spiraling; the country's 3.5% population growth is one of the world's highest. Says Border Patrolman Michael S. Williams: "They're starving to death down there...
...begin with, the project was launched at the worst possible moment: the start of the 1973-74 recession, when demand for new housing shriveled. Says Michael Spear, former general manager of Columbia, Md., a successful new community that is privately financed: "Launching a new towns program in the early 1970s was like asking the Wright brothers to test their airplane in a hurricane and then concluding, when it crashed, that the invention did not work...
...Hamilton Jordan, Dr. Peter Bourne, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Lance and Barry Jagoda. In: Jerry Rafshoon, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Blumenthal and Mr. and Mrs. James Earl Carter III. That is a partial list of those who did and did not make it into this year's The Green Book, Washington's suede-covered guide to the up and climbing. Getting into The Green Book requires that you not at present be divorced or separated, "unpleasantly notorious," or missing from the recommended list of entries sent over from the White House. The socially savvy staff of the manual...
...airlines' Washington overseers are persuaded that for all the grumbling about crowded airports and planes, the industry can handle more traffic. And some CAB officials talk as if discovering how much inconvenience passengers are willing to stand is what deregulation is all about. Says Michael Levine, the CAB'S director of prices: "The airlines are now free to find out what people want. The bottom range of air travel has not yet been explored." To which one airline executive replies: "There are only so many ways you can pack sardines...
...Michael S. Dukakis appointed James Vorenberg '49, Professor of Law, yesterday to head the new five-member state ethics commission...