Word: specialize
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Herrera has fashioned a demure tweed costume with the merest sigh of a skirt and rust-colored crushed-velvet tights -- guaranteed to conquer any corporate board. But she cautions against the indiscriminate use of patterns. "They have to be very special," she says. "Otherwise you look as if you have a terrible disease on your legs...
Some smugglers actually capitalize on specific IRCA programs. Max Dulay, a travel agent in Manila, earned $3 million bringing 300 to 400 Filipinos into the U.S. over a two-year period ending with his arrest in 1988. Dulay cashed in on the Special Agricultural Workers program, which gave legal status to farm workers who could claim at least 90 days of employment in the U.S. prior to 1986. Dulay used fake passports to bring small groups of Filipinos to Los Angeles (and sometimes to New York City and Chicago). He then transported them to a farm in central California...
Animal rights activists and researchers praised Wiles, who runs a part-time veterinary service and was a member of a special blue-ribbon mayoral commission created to recommend guidelines on animal care...
...cycling boom in the '70s are hanging in garages," says Fred Zahradnik, technical editor of Bicycling magazine. But with new index shifting systems from companies like Shimano of Irvine, Calif., he explains, "you just push the button, hear it click, and you're in gear." Shimano's system uses special teeth and ramps to move the chain smoothly between gears...
...SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Donald Morrison EDITOR AT LARGE: Strobe Talbott...