Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Monsignor Bryan Walsh, director of Catholic Charities in Miami, testified at the hearing that some 15,000 Haitians already in the U.S. have been waiting for up to seven years to know whether they can stay as political refugees. So far, he said, only 50 have been granted that status. Actually, Immigration officials estimate that during the same period, perhaps as many as 30,000 Haitians have slipped into south Florida in small boats, although many have not filed formally for admittance...
...vote would be postponed indefinitely. The reason: the ERA forces were still two votes short of the three-fifths majority required for passage. Some lawmakers had decided that a vote for ERA was too risky. Said one of them: "If there were a secret vote, it would pass. I know the antis will come out and vote against me, but the pros won't come...
...have sounded with ever greater frequency and urgency. Pollution in the celebrated body of water that was the cradle of Western civilization endangered those who make their home or living along its shores. Outbreaks of dysentery, viral hepatitis and typhoid have become common in some areas. Scientists in the know joke that to order oysters in a restaurant in Rome or Naples is to play "Italian roulette." And it is all happening in the world's most popular vacation playground: the Mediterranean, host to 100 million tourists a year...
Economists readily admit that they do not know how high unemployment will go in this recession. Confessed one top White House policymaker: "We've simply thrown away the textbook on this one. We've never started a downturn with such a high unemployment rate...
...That's it. Well, I happen to know that the Administration is going to do the same thing for us refugees of the credit wars. Simplistic Systems, the famous Washington Think Tank, did the planning on this...