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...continues, the U.S. population will rise to 392 million by the middle of the next century. The sluggish performance of the American economy, accompanied by persistent unemployment, makes aliens once again appear a threat to jobs. In particular, the growth of illegal immigration and the government's inability to stanch the flow are a constant irritant to Americans...
...strongest arguments: to the extent that NAFTA promotes prosperity, job growth and wage increases in Mexico, it should keep at home some of the illegal immigrants now flooding into California, Texas and other states. In fact, it is hard to see anything else that might stanch that flow. Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Attorney General Janet Reno have begun to make that argument, but gingerly. The subject is a very touchy one to Mexicans and Mexican Americans, and Clintonites dare not sound like nativists warning about a Brown Peril...
...million on the Milan stock exchange. But the Gulf War scared off investors, and the plans had to be dropped. Finally, the Aga Khan hired Goldman Sachs last year to sell off some of Ciga's lesser hotels in hopes of raising roughly $175 million to repay loans and stanch losses. One of the few buyers that stepped forward was Situr, an Italian property group, but before a deal could be struck, Situr alleged that Ciga's books contained serious irregularities and dropped out of the negotiations...
...bouquet of roses, she presses them ecstatically to her chest -- the scratches are as close as she can get to Pedro's caresses -- and then prepares a heady quail with rose-petal sauce. Her culinary witchcraft will affect many births, marriages and deaths. But they will not stanch her tears...
Thornburgh called for an independent inspector general to stanch millions of dollars of waste generated annually by the U.N. Even then it won't be easy to cut through 48 years of padding...