Immigrants of all stripes, particularly Latinos, continued to stream toward the string of tony communities on Long Island's South Fork, drawn by the pull of steady work in service industries -- laboring in the region's vineyards, doing landscaping jobs, filling in on construction sites.
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This enabled millions of people to buy homes they could not afford and to fill jobs in construction and retail that did not require that much education.
Some companies dealt with worker shortages caused by the migration by importing workers from Turkey, China and India to fill jobs in construction, agriculture and textiles.
Most of it came from the production of coatings for machine parts and from chromium-laced waste used as fill material in construction in the 1950s and the 1960s.
The immigrants started in tomato fields nearby, but by the late 1990s labor contractors were bringing migrant crews into town, to fill jobs in construction and at factories like two poultry plants belonging to Koch Foods, a company based in Illinois.
ITS construction involved filling in the sea between two of Macau's islands to recreate the Las Vegas strip, and then carefully cutting out tiny canals to provide at least a hint of Venice.
as subject to the right of the state to abridge or destroy it at pleasure by a construction or filling in beyond his outer line, and that, too, without compensation made.
Restoration was conducted by filling in the ditches with peat, construction of dams and removal of the tree stands in cases where drainage had increased its growth.
Land was purchased in 1960 at the former site of Hastings Pond, which had been filled in during construction of Interstate 94 through Saint Paul, and the building was completed at a cost of $3,663,529.78.
