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...difficult for them to find jobs and provoking discrimination against job seekers who merely look like foreigners. But the law has not significantly reduced unauthorized immigration. The flow from the South continues at such a pace that the INS is embarking on what literally amounts to a last-ditch tactic: it will soon dig a 5-ft.-deep, 4-mile-long trench along the Mexican border near San Diego, in part to prevent fast-moving cars packed with illegal immigrants from racing across the boundary...
Harvard and Yale both replaced their starting goalies at the beginning of the third period. The tactic proved to be a failure for the Elis when its sub, freshman Maureen Magauran, was whistled for slashing...
Voke also said pointedly that if Dukakis' goal was to "buy off" the cities and towns with generous amounts of local aid, his tactic did not work because legislators are not hearing calls from local officials to support the tax package...
...threat to Roe, pro-choice groups have embarked on an all- out lobbying effort. The National Organization for Women is planning a huge march in Washington on April 9. The National Abortion Rights Action League is organizing a drive to send a million postcards to the high court. Another tactic is to elicit a large outpouring of friend-of-court briefs from groups like bar associations, civil rights organizations, Senators and Congressmen, and population-control organizations...
...edict before the game assured that the Bengals would not use a quick snap to draw a penalty against Buffalo for too many players on the field. Bills Coach Marv Levy had complained about such a tactic...