Word: wave
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Most of the illegals have forked over as much as $48,000 each to gangsters in order to get to America. They are part of a wave from China's coastal Fujian province; no one knows what their real numbers are. Every now and then a boat stuffed with human cargo will wash up on a beachfront community. But many other landings go undetected. Police estimate there are 300 gang-run safe houses where illegals live as they prepare to enter the workplace. New York City's Fujian association estimates there are 500,000 illegals from the province...
...Stevey started out writing arrogant articles for Chicago zines. (He was also in a New Wave band, but he'd probably prefer that you didn't know that.) As a zine writer, Albini demanded "independence, self-determination, absolute total honesty and common sense" from bands and was always ready to write some off as sellouts. In 1982, he formed Big Black. Big Black is a band you've probably never heard of. Steve likes it this way. After a couple years of touring and a couple albums, Big Black broke up because too maybe people liked them. Meaning about...
...Wyoming may not like homosexuality, but they are neither fanatics nor fools, and they tend not to interfere in other people's personal business. Now not every anti-Semite was a Nazi, either; but without the thousand small literary and social cuts inflicted by anti-Semitism, Hitler's wave of extermination against the Jews of Europe could not have been successful. Dehumanize people enough, and someone will take up the challenge and kill them. It really does happen that...
After the tidal wave of books with advice for working mothers a few years ago, it was only a matter of time before the male version emerged. Marathon Dad: Setting a Pace That Works for Working Fathers by John Evans (Avon) leads the charge with advice directed at the father who wants to take part in parenting without giving up his career. Evans, a psychotherapist, sees Marathon Man as the natural partner of Super Mom: "another breathless man trying to juggle the demands of a full-time career and hands-on, involved parenting in a two-working-parent home...
...casinos won't help those numbers. "The Bellagio will do great, but we have had to downgrade all casino stocks in the past quarter," says analyst Jason Ader of Bear Stearns. "We doubt the new construction will earn the returns of the last wave--18% to 22%. We're forecasting...