Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yalie Twin...
Yale also got a thumbs-down from Susan N. Dekle '89, whose twin sister will attend the New Haven school. "People think it's funny that we're going to rival schools," says the Savannah, Ga. native. "We visited the Harvard campus, and I fell in love with Cambridge and Boston--Harvard's atmosphere is better than Yale's atmosphere...
...mutual reliance has grown spectacularly in recent years with the increase in maquiladoras, so-called twin plants on the Mexican side of the border. These are creations of U.S. companies, which set up factories to take advantage of cheap and once abundant labor to turn out products, ranging from computers to jump ropes, that are shipped back into the U.S. Both nations have reduced various export and import fees to aid this development. There are now some 700 such plants, providing Mexico with about $l.3 billion in earnings annually and a foreign exchange income exceeded only by its oil exports...
...presence of the maquiladoras benefits communities on both sides. El Paso Mayor Jonathan Rogers figures his city would lose 20,000 jobs if the twin plants in Juarez closed. This would double El Paso's already high unemployment rate to 24%. In Juarez, Mayor Barrio says any such shutdown would cause his city's economy to "immediately collapse...
DIED. John Boulting, 71, British filmmaker who with his twin (and surviving) brother Roy wrote, produced and directed more than 30 films, most of them comedies that poked satirical and iconoclastic fun at a panoply of British institutions: the armed forces (Private's Progress, 1955), diplomacy (Man in a Cocked Hat, 1958), labor unions (I'm All Right, Jack, 1959) and the Church of England (Heavens Above!, 1963); of lung cancer; in Warfield Dale, England. Many of the Boultings' best films featured a recurring cast of bumbling comic actors, including Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas and, most notably, Peter Sellers...