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- Border enforcement
- Brief History Border control received growing attention in the 1970s after the United States terminated the U.S.-Mexico bracero program and implemented per-country limits on legal immigration. The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act IRCA greatly increased Border Patrol funding. Ten years later, Congress passed the 1996 Illegal Immigration...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- National Guard troops credited with tighter border control
- NOGALES, United States AFP — The deployment of National Guard to the US-Mexican border is an effective deterrent to illegal immigration and has boosted drug seizures and lowered apprehensions by 30 percent in the busiest area, said Tucson sector Border Patrol. In the mid-1990s, Border Patrol added agents and...
- Research articles 2006-08-07
- Surging jobs growth sparks rate hike concerns.
- Jun 13, 2006 (The Australian Financial Markets Newsletter - INSTO - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Bureau of Statistics estimates that total employment rose by 56,000 in May 2006, to 10.142 million. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the month was 4.9 per cent, ...
- Research articles 2006-06-13
- Shell Hazira's LNG shipment stuck over row.
- Byline: Tushar Prabhune Mar. 11--AHMEDABAD, India -- Shell Hazira's plan to receive its first LNG shipment at Hazira on March 29 may get delayed due to an on-going row with the Gujarat government over disputed claims. The company, in a recent letter...
- Research articles 2005-03-11
- U.S. Border Patrol agents to speed up illegal immigrants' deportation.
- By Alma Walzer, The Monitor, McAllen, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 12--McALLEN, Texas -- Local U.S. Border Patrol agents soon will speed up the deportation of people found entering the country illegally who are not Mexican or Canadian citizens. ...
- Research articles 2004-08-12
- Safety Q&A with senior leadership
- (Editor's note: This is the second in a series of interviews on safety with senior AF leaders.) FSM: As you serve as Commander of AMC, what are your priorities as far as improving our safety efforts? I can't over-emphasize the importance of risk management, be it personal or...
- Research articles 2004-06-01
- It's uncertainty, not war, that worries the markets.
- Mar 23, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell to a low of 295 point during the 1991 Gulf War. It should be remembered that there was a large amount of anxiety prior to the war....
- Research articles 2003-03-24
- FOREX - AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR OPENS LOWER - JULY 4, 2002.
- SYDNEY, July 4 Asia Pulse - The Australian dollar has fallen below $US0.5600 overnight on apprehension about a speculated takeover by one of Australia's major banks. At 0700 AEST, the Australian dollar bought $US0.5595/60 compared with 0.5615/20 at yesterday's close. Apprehension about rumours of a...
- Research articles 2002-07-04
- Welcome to Hooverville - Letters
- Charles Peters said in his November 2001 column ("Tilting at Windmills") that the FBI does not emphasize the prevention of crime but only the apprehension of perpetrators after the fact. He is right, but even in the wake of September 11 we should all be thankful that this is...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- MUSIC IN THE MOMENT.(Review) (book review)
- MUSIC IN THE MOMENT. By JERROLD LEVINSON. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 1997. Pp. xiv, 183. Jerrold Levinson's Music in the Moment is a welcome addition to the impressive list of books in aesthetics, particularly the philosophy of music, published in the...
- Research articles 2000-01-01
- Fear Leads to Security
- The network security market is being driven by real and perceived threats of the unknown, according to a report by market analyst Frost & Sullivan. Media coverage of hacking and cyber-warfare, alongside users' apprehension over their systems' vulnerabilities will drive the market to $24.7bn by 2005 from $1.1bn last year,...
- Research articles 1999-08-09
- The Problem with Making English a Business Standard
- Increasingly companies are requiring global employees to communicate in English. But rather than enhance communication and productivity, this practice can engender ill will and apprehension. Here's what you can do to smooth out the babel. by Sean Silverthorne
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- The Interviewer - A Source Of Apprehension
- One of the main factors causing apprehension in the job selection process is our fear of the interviewer's relative power in comparison to ours in an interview situation. Many job applicants see in the interviewer a powerful figure that has the ability to influence our future. The knowledge that the...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- I'd Rather Die Than Give A Speech
- It has many names; glossophobia, communication apprehension, stage fright, having butterflies in the stomach. It has several symptoms; a rapid heartbeat, sweaty palms, a dryness in the mouth and unsteady hands. Most people are familiar with one recent poll or another showing that Americans rank fear of public speaking ahead...
- White papers 2007-01-17
- Banks on the front lines
- The stakes are higher for anti-money laundering efforts. Speakers at an ABA conference stressed the need to shut down terrorist funding. Also, new money laundering legislation is summarized. Read for further apprehension.
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- The Effects Of Communication Apprehension On The Perception Of Peers
- Some of the more important outcomes of human communication are the perceptions of each other that are stimulated in the participants as a result of their interaction. A person's communication behavior has a major impact on the way that person is perceived by the other communicators involved. The amount of...
- White papers 2004-10-05
- Rough selling ahead for abrasives. (includes related article on shaft grinding equipment)
- In the face of a growth curve that most experts characterize as flat," manufacturers and distributors of abrasives view the 1990s with cautious optimism and mild apprehension. Causes for this uncertainty are the economic, political and milita In the face of a growth...
- Research articles 1990-02-01
- Wright for the 21st century: the longest running contemporary network chief has diversified NBC while keeping its prized top spot in the ratings. (A Special Advertising Supplement).(NBC president Bob Wright)(Advertisement)
- Surprise, disbelief and apprehension spread quickly through NBC, when General Electric announced in 1986 that Bob Wright, then president of GE Capital, would become the broadcasting company's new president. Not only were they losing Grant Tin Surprise, disbelief...
- Research articles 2003-02-24
- MOODY'S DOWNGRADES CREDIT STATUS OF QUEZON POWER.
- MANILA, May 22 Asia Pulse - Credit rating firm Moody's Investor Services has downgraded the borrowing status of a unit of premier power firm Meralco and raised apprehension over the likelihood of a similar downgrade on the credit standing of the gov MANILA, May 22...
- Research articles 2003-05-22
- PHILIPPINE POLITICIAN LAMENTS RELAXED VISA RULES FOR CHINESE.
- MANILA, Oct 5 Asia Pulse - Senate Minority Leader Aquilino "Nene" Q. Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban) today expressed apprehension that the relaxed visa requirements for visitors from China now being implemented by the government may aggravate the problem MANILA, Oct 5 Asia Pulse - Senate...
- Research articles 2004-10-05
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