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...study by the Rand Corp. and the Urban Institute shows that the average penalty was a mere $850 in an alien-saturated city like San Antonio. No employers anywhere in the U.S. have gone to jail for breaking that law. Even the smugglers have little to fear: a six-month suspended sentence is typical for a first offense, while some violators get only probation. "U.S. attorneys along the border plea- bargain these cases away," says immigration expert Simcox. "A smuggler often gets off with the confiscation of his vehicle, which is seen as just a cost of doing business...
Some economists believe U.S. industry as a whole will become healthier and more competitive by moving away from military production. Reason: the Pentagon procurement process is so elaborate that the development of new components often takes several years rather than the six-month turnaround that is commonplace in other manufacturing. "It's very clear that today's commercial electronics are higher performance, lower cost and higher quality than the same goods built by defense contractors," says Jacques Gansler, a Washington- based defense economist. Moreover, much of American's innovative brainpower will turn to designing products that enhance, rather than threaten...
...only thing I learned about extrapolation in my six-month ordeal was that my 14 on the first test and my 17 on the second test did not mean that I was going to get a 20 on the third test. The slope was just too risky to predict future scores...
...promised to release the world's most famous prisoner, Nelson Mandela, now in his 28th year of imprisonment, though he did not say when. De Klerk legalized more than 60 banned organizations, lifted emergency restrictions on the press and on 374 political activists, suspended executions and put a six-month limit on detentions without trial. He also promised to lift the remaining elements of the state of emergency imposed in 1986 "as soon as circumstances justify it." Said De Klerk: "The season of violence is over. The time for reconstruction and reconciliation has arrived...
...after Harvard's student government ended a six-month controversy over the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), the faculty at the University of Wisconsin passed a resolution banning ROTC from campus unless it ends its discriminatory policies against gays and lesbians...