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...number of legal entrants it now accepts. But it must act swiftly and resolutely to make it more difficult for foreigners to come here illegally - and for businesses to hire them. A national ID card is a bad idea. Tougher border enforcement is a good one, as are swifter deportation proceedings, a "guest worker" program with sufficient protections for the "guests," stiff penalties for those who employ illegal aliens, and amnesty for illegals already here. The U.S. must also seek ways to make other nations share in the task of accepting outpourings of refugees like the Cuban exodus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closing the Golden Door | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...this system takes out of the pipeline are the ones that take several months to try normally, then that amounts to quite a bit of time saved to try many other cases in the normal court system." Because private judges can help unclog court calendars, justice can become somewhat swifter for everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Rent-a-Judge | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...minstrel Elsie, Lisa Sheldon is convincing. Though polished and powerful, her soprano unfortunately lapses occasionally into an operatic ardor and intensity out of place in a light opera at the tiny Agassiz Theater. Her enunciation is murky, at times, with the result that she swallows many of Gilbert's swifter lyrics. Still, her opening duet with Jack Point "I Have a Song to Sing O" is the operetta's high point: sorrowful, simple, and affecting...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: A G & S Surprise | 12/11/1980 | See Source »

...those medals, the athletes must meet, in all-out competition against the world's best, the Olympic challenge: higher, swifter, farther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold Rush at Lake Placid | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

Thought you wouldn't have to see me until the leaves turn green, huh? Well, you're out of luck, as I have been summoned from the land of number 2 pencils a semester early this year to make the road to clinical depression a little swifter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports Cube First Annual Basketball Mid-Year | 1/19/1979 | See Source »

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