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...economic entity, greater Los Angeles is world class: if the area seceded, it would have a G.N.P. larger than that of Mexico or Australia. The movie and TV business is only the hot tip of L.A.'s biggest job sector, its service industries, which together employ 882,000 people. There is a muscular side as well, with 869,000 workers in manufacturing, about a third in aerospace and other clean, high-tech industries. But parts of the city could pass for Buffalo. On the waterfront in Long Beach sit stacks of blue and orange cargo containers. In Lynwood, railroad tracks...
While Mexico accounts for an estimated 92% of the illegal immigrants coming into the U.S., the number from other countries is also on the rise. In one Texas Border Patrol sector, arrested Salvadorans have doubled over the past year, from 266 to 542. One of them, José, 25, is trying to raise his $3,500 bond. "I can't go back to El Salvador," he says. "I'd be shot." Like Afghan and Haitian refugees, Salvadorans present thorny problems for the INS because they come requesting asylum. To get it, they must show that they have been...
...When she finally was eliminated in the tallying, most of her votes transferred to Independents (i.e. voters who supported Wilkes first, backed Independents as second choices). A major beneficiary was incumbent City Councilor Thomas W. Danehy, whose North Cambridge neighborhood is experiencing gentrification similar to that in the eastern sector of the city...
...these programs, despite their differences, do have a common strand. They are, in Klitgaard's words, "capacity developing": instead of merely providing solutions, they are establishing a new class of managers--whether in the public or private sector--who will be the nuts and bolts of maintaining that country's development...
...public corporations. Others are de facto following the same policy Significantly, U.S. banks have not publicly singled out the government of any other foreign country in a similar fashion. These new lending policies have contributed to the fact that U.S. bank loans to the South African public sector are at a lower level today than...