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...Nilson Report, a credit-card industry newsletter. Nigeria has produced so many credit-card bandits that the U.S. Secret Service joined with other federal agencies in the 1980s to form a special West African Task Force that helped nab Adekanbi. According to authorities, his gang used counterfeit cards to obtain at least $650,000 in goods and cash advances and had access to lines of credit worth $8 million. Officials suspect that this loot is only a fraction of the thieves' real total...
...this gives a lot of responsibility to the the teachers. Unfortunately, this most likely would place gregarious students and students in smaller departments at an advantage. Those who are friendly with their instructors would obtain both more insightful recommendations and more attention to their academic difficulties. But this drawback results from the impersonality of a big university, not the pass-fail concept. Students get lost in the academic jungle under the current system...
Some storekeepers, such as Renato D. Reis, who owns the men's accessory shop Renato's, will suffer greatly because of the University's decision. He said he invested $60,000 in his 180-square-foot store and had to undergo six months of interviews to obtain that space...
Simpson sees his legislation as a way to keep business from driving down American wages and giving away jobs to foreigners willing to accept low wages. "Employers should be able to obtain skilled foreign workers," the Senator says, "but not with an abandon that leaves 1.1 million skilled young Americans chiseled out of jobs." He dismisses criticism of the bill as "a very deft operation of near hysteria" and asserts, "We're not trying to do one damn thing to [hurt] American competitiveness...
...with the creation of a new World Wide Web site, students can obtain accurate, up-to-the-minute weather forecasts for the Harvard campus straight from their dorm rooms...