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Moribund negotiations with South Korea and the United States were also revived , while talks with Japan led to an agreement to began normalizing diplomatic relations . Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett ( D ) announced plans yesterday to open the county 's third day-laborer center , near the Shady Grove Metro station just south of the Gaithersburg border.Plans for a county-funded employment center for day laborers , most of whom are immigrants , have been a source of controversy in Gaithersburg for the past year . A third group was taught memory skills , which involved remembering word lists and using visualizations and associations as memory aids . " I ca n't say that I have a lot of very close , personal relationships with people , " Skilling told the jury.During eight sometimes captivating days as his own chief witness , Skilling described for the jury his psychological odyssey , which left him " going to pieces , " unable to get out of bed and plagued with alcohol problems as Enron hurtled toward bankruptcy protection in December 2001.At one point , Skilling testified , he was so overcome with emotion and drink that his fiancee could not roust him out of a Fort Lauderdale , Fla ., hotel room to meet friends and attend a boat show . " In the end I believe it will save the county and Manassas and Manassas Park money , and I think it 's right for the county , " Land said.The county is facing an $ 18 million shortfall in revenue for the current fiscal year , and the board of supervisors has been told that about $ 22 million must be cut from next year 's budget . Take our word for it . The issue was left unresolved when Duncan left office last month.Even before the announcement yesterday , word of a possible location prompted criticism from those opposed to the county spending taxpayer dollars on projects that could help illegal immigrants . " But MedImmune contends that a federal law enacted in 1936 permits a party to take a contract dispute to court without having to break the agreement first . The site , he said , would provide an organized location for the workers , and that " it 's not in anybody 's back yard except for the county government 's . " Covington noted that although the county could not determine the impact on the school system , the number of non-English-speaking students has risen dramatically in the last five years . an agreement for making payments pursuant to an agreement in the nature of a compromise , you ca n't come and say that it has been coerced or is some form of duress . North Korea launched a medium-range missile over Japan in 1998 ; in 1999 , the United States agreed to ease trade sanctions against the country in exchange for North Korea 's agreement to suspend its missile testing . " ) , released in 2001 over the Internet , became the first Arabic rap hit and spawned a new kind of rap that is spreading quickly throughout the Middle East , communications lecturer Usama Kahf of California State University at Long Beach says in an article under review by the Journal of Popular Music Studies.A dozen rappers - - mostly Palestinians - - fill the Arab streets with rap and hip-hop beats , according to Kahf 's review of the nascent genre .