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Unfortunately, amid all the political partisanship and posing, the serious matter of just how to finance the Government for the current fiscal year got scant attention. Another victim of the pressures may be one of the most important reforms undertaken by any recent Congress: the Simpson-Mazzoli bill, which would try to bring some sense to immigration policies. Passed in both houses, but in different forms, it would grant amnesty to illegal aliens who can prove longtime residency in the U.S., and would apply penalties against employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens in the future. Mexican Americans in particular oppose...
With limited time and scant money, it transformed a scattered, dowdy assortment of obsolete and makeshift facilities into a unified, colorful and festive setting for the Los Angeles Games. And all without major investment in new buildings. "Even the simplest new structures would have cost at least $500 million," says Ed Keen, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee's construction boss. "We couldn't afford such white elephants. So we decided to adapt 26 old athletic facilities-some left over from the 1932 Olympiad-and decorate them to give them a unified look...
...model agency. She reportedly signed a release and made little or no money from the photo session. Why the pictures surfaced now, just two months before the end of her reign, remained unexplained, but Guccione stated that Chiapel got "the most we ever paid for a layout." Williams had scant warning of the magazine's plan to publish. "She is shocked," said her lawyer, though he could hardly deny that it was she in the pictures. Williams will announce this week whether she will give up the crown. If she does, Suzette Charles, 21, the first runner...
...appointment promises to bolster the F.D.P.'s status in the governing coalition. The Free Democrats have slipped badly in public opinion polls, and lost all four of their European Parliament seats in the elections. Unlike his predecessor, however, the new minister knows little about economics and inspires scant confidence among West Germany's business community...
...many rival publishers belittled the new daily as a misconceived ego trip by hard-driving Chairman Allen Neuharth. Gannett is the biggest U.S. newspaper chain, with 85 dailies, but its papers are mostly in smaller markets, and the combined circulation of 3.5 million before USA Today had translated into scant national influence. By launching a coast-to-coast daily, Gannett would gain visibility and clout, even if the undertaking would require steep start-up costs, arduous technical demands in printing at dozens of locations, and a hard sell to persuade advertisers to accept a new kind of vehicle...