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...high club flush got hammered by a jack-high club flush, I fretted about how my reviewers would parse the subtle differences between the cameras. These bitty viddies aspire to be utterly simple, without the array of buttons and settings that come on higher-end models. Both produce high-definition video. Both have USB plugs that pop up at the touch of a button, switchblade-style, so you don't need a separate cord to connect them to your computer. Both have super-easy-to-use editing software (Kodak's is PC-only) that lets you snip together movies...
Gettelfinger also said while he was concerned about the impact of the end of the jobs bank, where workers on long-term layoff basically collect almost all of their wages while not working. The jobs bank had become a hot-button issue that was impeding the domestic carmakers' efforts to obtain federal assistance before the end of the year. Fewer than 4,000 workers at the three companies now collect wages through the jobs bank, which applies only after the workers have been on indefinite layoff for more than 48 weeks...
...Outcome: Having once attended a wedding in a borrowed button-down shirt and jeans because of lost luggage, the Avenger sympathized with Schillaci. We contacted the American offices of Eurofly and were told the airline was still investigating the claim more than a month after the suitcase disappeared. (Did you guys look between the office's couch cushions? Because maybe the bag fell down there...
Mickey's story, however, starts with a rabbit. Disney Brothers Studio was just another cog in Universal Pictures' animation machine when, in 1927, Walt Disney created a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. With his round, white face, big button nose and floppy black ears, the smiling Oswald was an instant hit and Universal ordered a series of shorts. When Disney met with executives to negotiate another contract in 1928, the rabbit was still riding high and the animator thought he had the upper hand. Instead, the studio told him that it had hired away all of his employeees...
...teachers from across the country met in Chicago for the first-ever conference of the National Educator's Association, now one of the country's most powerful teachers' unions. The topic of "teacher's tenure" led the agenda. By the turn of the century, tenure had become a hot-button issue that some politicians preferred to avoid. In 1900, the Democratic Party of New York blasted their rivals in the Times for taking up the issue, writing, "We deprecate the tendency manifested by the Republican party of dragging the public school system of the State into politics...