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That, however, is a tough argument to sell to textile workers. The overall economic gains also come at the price of a modest but significant increase in wage inequality, since most of the competitive pressure is on pay for unskilled workers. George Borjas, an economist at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, figures foreign competition has accounted for one-fourth of the widening gap between the wages of high school dropouts and those paid to college graduates over the past 20 years...
...guesthouses. Later, he moved them to one of his palaces. But as the months passed a chill set in, and in October the government asked the families to vacate their opulent digs to make room for other guests. The Iraqis were moved into more modest accommodations on the way to the airport...
Clint Eastwood says he won't star in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. However, he will direct the tale of a murder set in Savannah, Georgia. Producer Arnold Stiefel, who bought the screen rights for a modest $300,000 before John Berendt's book became a best seller, couldn't be happier: "It's good nobody in Hollywood has time to read...
...Gies' modest recounting of her daredevil acts makes goodness seem almost routine, the norm, in a time when monsters ravaged Europe. But that is Blair's point. In war as in peace, Anne's friends showed a bravery they might well shrug off as simple human decency. This harrowing, inspiring film--an antidote to Holokitsch--is their testament. It alerts us that villainy is the rank soil in which heroism can flower...
...propaganda campaigns with dire predictions of America's coming shortage of high-tech workers and of the need for some drastic government action to increase the supply. The unspoken aim is to create enough of a surplus so that American engineers and scientists will be forced to settle for modest salaries and benefits. DONALD A. RYAN Salinas, California