Word: waved
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...flight of jobs from the U.S. Gone are the days when wage increases could result merely from the passage of time. Raises must now be tied to worker productivity. American labor must also realize that in this era of expansive global trade, this country cannot sit back and simply wave the flags of protectionism...
...When I was a kid," Jesse says, "you had to become Anglo to survive. For the kids today, it's hip to be latino." How hip? A New Wave rock band formed by U.S.-born Mexican Americans is called Los Illegals. Avance, a stylish new magazine written in English, has a young, upscale circulation of 35,000. But for every trendy Avance subscriber in L.A. there are at least ten who resist adaptation. Says L.A. Times Columnist Frank del Olmo: "There's a large segment within the legal population who see themselves as Mexicans. They don't necessarily want...
...Border Patrol reckons that if the wave continues, an unprecedented 2 million immigrants, double the average annual influx, may sneak into the country before 1983 is over. More than half a million will become permanent residents, joining the shadow population of 3.5 million to 6 million illegal immigrants already here. They come for jobs, scrambling through fences, hopping freight trains, wading the Rio Grande, or riding in trucks with smugglers, who charge as much as $2,000 a head. Said a Mexican baker in Phoenix who smuggled his wife and ten children across the border: "It was too hard...
Everybody in Hollywood expected George Lucas' Return of the Jedi to do very well. Still, no one was prepared for the human tidal wave that has inundated the theaters since the film opened May 25. The first day set a box-office record of $6,219,629, and that was a Wednesday, usually a slow day in the movie business. Friday beat that record, with $6,437,005, and Sunday jumped to $8,440,105. When the week was over, Return of the Jedi had made $45,311,004, nearly double the amount of the previous highest scorer...
...disparities in the quality of education for Blacks and whites, thousands of Soweto students rioted for several days in 1976, burning books and vandalizing schools before being brutally quelled by South African police Dozens of Black students were killed in the riots, outraging many students here and prompting a wave of demonstrations against the conditions of inequality for Blacks and whites in South Africa that persist today. "The 1976 Soweto riots really generated an enormous amount of student activity [on U.S. campuses]," says Gail Hovey, research coordinator for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). After that start, others...