Word: wave
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Clinton's alteration of George Bush's repatriation program, which he had blasted as "immoral" during the campaign, will quiet the President's critics and save Florida from a wave of unwanted immigrants. But the military thugs who rule Haiti will remain in power, and Clinton's promise to "restore democracy" -- and Jean-Bertrand Aristide -- will remain unfulfilled unless more is done. To that end, says the President, anything is possible, including force. For now, though, Clinton favors the sanctions endorsed by the U.N. Security Council last Friday, a set of measures certain only to further harm the average Haitian...
There is little reason to suppose that the newest wave of Asian and Latino immigrants will not be able to repeat the success of their European forebears. The average Asian-American household income is now 127 percent of the U.S. average...
...making a big deal out of issues thatweren't issues before," Mann says, accusing Davisof riding the term bill hike "like a wave " to gether agenda across...
...cumulative voting. Meanwhile, the New York Times had published a speculative plan drafted by the Washington-based Center for Voting and Democracy explaining how North Carolina could erase its troublesome 12th * in favor of the same system. Suddenly one of Lani's Follies looked like it might be the wave of the future...
...obvious reasons for this are the ones often invoked to explain the problem of violence in society as a whole -- more guns, and more glory for using them. But experts also blame increasingly harsh work environments and a continual wave of layoffs in the past decade, which have made workers feel dispensable. Says psychologist Bruce Blythe, of Atlanta-based Crisis Management International: "People get awfully upset when there are no raises, then there are layoffs, and the CEO gets a $500,000 bonus. This growing disparity plays into it." Making workers even more desperate, says Dennis Johnson, a clinical psychologist...