Word: citizenships
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Increasingly, a high level of literacy is required for work, for citizenship, for personal needs. Most technical manuals in the military and in industry require a relatively high literacy level (about a 12th grade reading level on a standardized reading test). It is the level sought by adults who lose their jobs in manufacturing and who seek advanced training and high school equivalency diplomas...
Edgar's first cousins, Edward and Peter Bronfman, known in Canada as the "poor Bronfmans," have not changed their citizenship, but they have invested in the U.S. By selling half their Seagram stock during the 1960s, Edward and Peter multiplied their assets into controlling interests in more than 100 companies with an estimated total value of more than $30 billion. In the U.S., those holdings include the Maryland-based Rouse Co. (1985 revenues: $247 million) and California's Ernest Hahn real estate...
From her earliest experiments, Levi-Montalcini, who holds both Italian and American citizenship, focused on the nervous system. Before her discovery, scientists did not understand how organs signaled developing nerve cells to link up with them. It was Levi-Montalcini who first suggested in 1951 that the signal might come from a growth-stimulating chemical in the cells targeted by the nerves. Her hunch was confirmed in 1952 when she observed that single nerve cells, taken from chick embryos and cultured with tissue from mouse tumors, sprouted nerve fibers that reached out "like the rays of the sun." Her conclusion...
...protect Hispanics, the bill would create new protections against employment discrimination based on national origin or citizenship status. A special counsel would be created in the Justice Department to enforce the protections. Employers of three or fewer people would be exempted from that provision...
...community develops, individual freedom begins to be restricted. The result is the perpetual American balancing act, which applies to disputes on AIDS, drug testing, abortion, school prayer, to any issue or condition that would blow off the national roof were there no continuing, deliberate compromise between personal liberty and citizenship...