Word: passport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that had prompted the legislative change. Phipps, 49, whose great-great-great-great-grandmother was an 18th century black slave, is "colored" according to the state of Louisiana. Phipps, who is married to a wealthy white crawfish merchant, only found that out in 1977, when she applied for a passport and learned that her birth certificate called her colored. She claims she has always considered herself white...
...case began nine years ago when Chadha found himself the proverbial man without a country. Born in Kenya of Indian parents and holding a British passport, Chadha was trying to return home after six years at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where he earned an undergraduate degree in business and master's degrees in political science and economics. Kenya refused to take him because they said he was a British subject, he recalls, and Britain told him he would have to wait a year. He wrote to U.S. immigration officials about citizenship, but was again rebuffed. After...
...five siblings, ages 24 to 33, were about to join their parents, whom they had last seen in 1979. They stepped through the passport stamper's booth and up to the desk of the Immigration and Naturalization Service official, a sympathetic woman, for fingerprinting and more stamps. They carried their things (a portable tape player, a jar of noodles soaked in vinegar, bath slippers) past the Department of Agriculture inspector and out. The young Santiagos had never been to Los Angeles, let alone the U.S. And yet, as of last Thursday afternoon, they were here to stay...
...will be even more decisive in the New Economy than in the old; an inefficient chip-maker will suffer just as much as an inefficient steelmaker. And the pitfalls will be just as deep for high-tech managers as for those in old-line industries. High tech is no passport to business success. Digital Equipment Corp. is a leader in the minicomputer business, but it is now having to run to catch up in micro computers. Xerox pioneered office copy machines, but it has had trouble finding a niche in the office automation market. Southern Biotech was a promising firm...
...passport is needed to identity this traveler. As an 8-ft. canary, he is one of a kind: an innocent abroad, with feathers. He is none other than Big Bird, star of Sesame Street. On May 29, a 90-minute NBC special called Big Bird in China takes him on a peregrination of the landmarks of China. A $1.3 million joint production of Children's Television Workshop (creator of Sesame Street) and China Central Television (CCTV), the national Chinese network, the program is essentially a beautifully photographed travelogue...