Word: units
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ranks of border-patrol agents within the INS to as many as 6,000. Congress never provided the funding, however, and today's 3,800 agents are overworked and demoralized. INS agents are now up in arms over a proposed reorganization scheme that will merge the prestigious antismuggling units into the larger bureaucracy. "Here in Los Angeles, the alien capital of America, the Act has had no impact in deterring smuggling," asserts Thomas Gaines, a 30-year INS veteran who retired recently as head of the largest antismuggling unit. "Enforcement is an absolute disaster, and we don't have anywhere...
...appreciate the instincts that link women "with their inborn sense of suffering," which takes her beyond simplistic movement ideology. "Envy and all the harsh judgments . . . are suspended as we return to some primal bond, where nurturing preceded rivalry." But as comforting as the bonds forged in the intensive-care unit are, she doubts they can last. "Friendships should begin slowly . . . If the opening chords are the life and death notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, there's no place to go from there...
...very unlikely that a separate department in terms of an administrative unit will be formed," Wilson says, "but at the same time, there has been a significant increase in the interest of some members of the faculty in providing more training, especially at the graduate level, in environmental issues...
Many now take programs like the ones Boothe enrolled in, which grant officials scholarships to take evening classes. In addition, the school offers programs to train third world officials in management, and has a Research Unit for Housing and Urbanization which holds seminars on third world problems...
...State Senate for review, the petition known as "C 1/2" will give the city power to ban owners of multi-unit rent-controlled buildings from selling off one unit at a time--thus preventing the conversion of rent-controlled apartments to condominiums...