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...Pancho, U.S. officials like to make projections and then estimate that there are now 6 million illegal immigrants in the U.S.?or 7 million or maybe 8 million. One official estimate by the Immigration and Naturalization Service even computed that illegal immigrants cost the nation $16 billion in unpaid taxes plus welfare and other costs. Such computations satisfy the stereotyped view of illegal immigrants loafing about and collecting benefits (they also support I & NS requests for more inspectors and a bigger budget). In fact, however, nobody has any real idea how many illegal immigrants there are, but they...
Producer Dino De Laurentiis had a monkey on his back last week-and a whole jungle of would-be actors on his hands. Preparing to shoot the closing scenes in his new version of King Kong, the film maker placed a newspaper ad requesting unpaid volunteers for a crowd scene at the foot of Manhattan's World Trade Center. Instead of the 5,000 people expected, nearly four times that number showed up to see Kong bleed Karo syrup and breathe his last. ("A mob of paid extras is one thing," said a nervous production chief, "but this...
...situation that says less about the state of patriotism than about the structure of the newspaper business today. Newspapers are typically published as a secondary occupation by printers who derive a large part of their income from turning out business forms, announcements, pamphlets and similar work for their clients. Unpaid correspondents write nearly all of the news that fills most papers, and their contributions generally appear unedited...
Dust Bowl and Depression. Humphrey dwells fondly, at times movingly, on the Dust Bowl and Depression years that scarred his psyche without crushing his spirit: "I used to see my father, his exuberant spirits momentarily giving in, sitting head in hands, grinding his life away between unpaid bills and unpaid accounts." At seven the future Vice President washed glasses in the family drugstore. At 16 he wept with his parents when they were forced to sell the family home. His political philosophy was soon forged: New Deal, Big Government. "I witnessed," he writes, "how government programs literally rebuilt the territory...
...that she is not really worth taking seriously. She shirks being judged by "professional" standards, being fired, reprimanded or competed with. "She is a 'good' woman: although she is working outside her home, everyone knows that most female volunteers are primarily loyal to their families--and not to their unpaid volunteer work...