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...economic development This plan led to what both New York and New Jersey officials called a "border war," with each side trying to steal businesses away from the other. The hostilities became so mutually harmful that Florio and New York Governor Mario Cuomo eventually declared a "non-aggression pact...
...American labor movement, which had never looked as moribund as it did this past year. In mid-November, Big Labor watched in fury as a Democratic President, whom it had helped elect, pushed the North American Free Trade Agreement through a Democratic Congress over heated union objections that the pact would cost jobs. That humiliation was merely the latest in a string of setbacks for labor since Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization in 1981, which made many other workers afraid to strike. "After Patco we felt we were looking...
...many other Cubans, tourism is a pact with the devil. They remember how they felt exploited by rich foreigners before 1959. At the Tuxpan disco, the only Cubans allowed in are pubescent girls dressed in scanty Lycra minis who have bartered their company to rum-swilling tourists for a meal. It makes Julio Gonzalez angry even as he takes their money...
Recipe for theatrical disaster: take a moldy 19th century German opera about a Faustian pact with the Devil and turn it over to a composer of hobo rock, a legendary writer from the Beat Generation, and a director who specializes in performance pieces for the art crowd. But don't go away. A pop opera of very odd sorts called The Black Rider is a triumph for its three collaborators, Tom Waits, William S. Burroughs and Robert Wilson...
Does this mean the end of the American pact with newcomers to its shores? Almost surely not. Despite difficulties, recent immigrants have brought to the U.S. a diversity, a vitality, a freshness unseen since the great immigration waves of the 19th century. Though different and perhaps more problematic than those who have come before, the latest immigrants are helping form a new society, a variation and intensification of the great American experiment. Too complicated and diffuse to be described as a melting pot, or even a goulash or a mosaic, that society today is really a collection of intertwining subcultures...