Word: send
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Groups report the plaudits they receive far outweigh the financial support. Many say they must pinch their pennies--and search for the dollars--to send students to competitions, put out publications and host events...
...prostitution-ring inquiry. "I never paid for a woman in my life," De Niro told the newspaper Le Monde, adding that he would never return to France and would tell his friends to stay away, too. He also said he would boycott the Cannes Film Festival and send back the Legion of Honor (one of France's highest civilian decorations) that he was awarded at last year's festival. Later, on a French TV talk show, De Niro changed his tune, saying he would indeed return to France this fall for an exhibition of his late father's paintings...
...TIME correspondent Bruce Van Voorst believes December?s 9-year-record trade deficit is a sign of things to come, plummeting Asian currencies send a tsunami of cheap imports towards America, while Japan's failure to stimulate its domestic demand and absorb some of Asia's exports exacerbates the crisis. "If the trend reflected in the December U.S. trade deficit continues - and there's every reason to believe it will - the Asian crisis could knock 1 percent off our GDP and wipe out 1 million American jobs," says Van Voorst.
...Cold War?s frenzied race to record ?firsts? in space may have been replaced by genteel cooperation, but Moscow is set to edge out the U.S. in becoming the first nation to send a national politician into space. Former Kremlin national security adviser Yuri Baturin will be blasted up to Mir on August 12 to take part in a research mission. That?s two months ahead of Senator John Glenn?s planned sojourn on the shuttle Discovery. As space travel for the political executive goes, Discovery easily has the edge over Mir for comfort and safety, but the Russian station...
Garment factories, wherever they operate, will always be sweatshops. The bottom line depends on whatever manufacturers and buyers can squeeze out of the market. The immigrants who work in the N.M.I. come here to make money for their families back home. They work, they get paid and they send home money. Not one alien has arrived illegally in the U.S. by way of the N.M.I. Many of the so-called violations are of federal law, yet the U.S. government has very little presence here. We feel that the Federal Government, not the states, has the responsibility to uphold its laws...