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...source of irritation is for the Mexican worker a means, often the only means of survival. To stay "out of sight and out of mind" in Mexico would probably mean remaining unemployed, or at best accepting work at much lower pay and under much harsher conditions for the Mexican migrant workers in California...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prejudice | 1/30/1987 | See Source »

...says. "If America deals with Florida's problems today, it is dealing with America's problems tomorrow." As Governor, Graham endeared himself to Floridians through his once-a-week "workdays," when he would leave his desk to get the feel of a nonpolitical job: schoolteacher, hospital orderly, flight attendant, migrant farmer, even one night on the stage in The Fantasticks. That gave him a chance to indulge a passion his new Senate colleagues should keep in mind: Graham will burst into song at the slightest provocation, or none. Journalists who heard him warble Margaritaville on election eve can testify that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW FACES IN THE SENATE | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

...addition, South Africa has threatened that it might retaliate against sanctions by expelling the 350,000 contract laborers from neighboring black states who hold down jobs within the country. Since each migrant worker supports an estimated six people at home, roughly 2 million black Africans would be quickly stripped of their livelihood. Tiny Lesotho, to take one example, would not only be flooded with 140,000 returning workers, equivalent to more than 75% of its wage-labor force, but would also be deprived of their salary remittances, which currently exceed the country's entire gross domestic product. Earlier this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: A Boycott's Hidden Victims | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...title implies, this movie is a generic myth constructed from a whole slew of great tales of yesterday, you, far away and thither. Playing on an anticipation of the viewer's weak memory, Legend offers us a couple of migrant dwarves straight from Middle Earth, a little-used golden sword on loan from King Arthur, a satanic but tender-hearted Evil (Tim Curry) lifted from Goethe, an outdoorsy-type hero borrowed from Edgar Rice Borroughs (Cruise), a couple of white unicorns stolen from the planet of Pern and a fairy queen cloned from Tinkerbell. Now, 'tis true that...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Guys and Trolls | 4/25/1986 | See Source »

...choosing the winners, the Truman Foundation defines public service very broadly, said Harvard Director of Felowships Melinda S. Walsh. "We've had winners who have devoted their time to helping migrant workers in Texas, working in Washington as aides, and writing books on psychology," she said...

Author: By Gregory R. Schwartz, | Title: Two Sophomores Snag Truman Scholarships | 4/23/1986 | See Source »

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