Word: caps
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...most notably Julian Simon, a professor of business at the University of Maryland, predict that as the baby boomers age and the birthrate falls, the labor market will tighten and "employers will cry out for workers." The Kennedy-Simpson bill being considered by the House sets an annual "flexible" cap of about 630,000 legal immigrants per year, far less than the U.S. economy could absorb. Moreover, several new books refute the contention that immigrants displace U.S. workers or burden the welfare system. According to recent studies, immigrants are more likely than U.S.-born citizens to start new businesses...
...country, not the house; and where previous speakers have included Shirley Chisholm, Gloria Steinem and Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich. Barbara Bush wasn't Wellesley's first choice this year; that honor went to Alice Walker, black author, single mother and Pulitzer prizewinner, who declined. To women in cap and gown who have worked hard to be able to make it on their own, having a wife and mother on the podium may feel too diminishing, like getting on Nightline and then having to wave to your...
...sure, the Community's Common Agricultural Policy is a costly absurdity, milking European consumers to keep marginal farmers on nonviable land and hurting efficient producers when the resulting surpluses are dumped on world markets. Yet despite the CAP, the Community is a net importer of foodstuffs, and a group of twelve countries that consistently runs a trade deficit with the rest of the world can hardly be described as fundamentally protectionist. A peek inside the global figures discloses that West Germany is the only E.C. country regularly racking up big trade surpluses within the Community and outside it as well...
...tragedy is that so many Easterners close themselves to the Midwest. When they get a glimpse of happenings in Iowa, it is either watching Field of Dreams on videotape or Dan Rather--looking spiffy in a Golden Acres Seed cap--interviewing a tearful Iowan whose family farm is going on the auction block...
...long-term. Zoulas says the Board of Regents is attempting to bring total student costs under control, allowing individual schools to set tuition rates and letting the Board set a cap on total contribution...