Word: closing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...attempt to close America’s borders been limited to the labor market. Initial versions of the stimulus package that underwent congressional and international scrutiny would have forced all infrastructure projects receiving money from the federal government to “buy American,” using only American steel in the construction of roads and bridges. Thankfully, this provision did not make it into the final bill that was signed into law. But the “Buy American” controversy is indicative of a turn toward a protectionist trade agenda, especially in the anti-immigrant lobbies...
...second was probably their best period, and we got outworked a little bit,” Donato said.The Bears scored the one and only goal of the night at 3:19 in the third. Fourth line sophomore forward Harry Zolnierczyk scored his first collegiate goal off a close-range rebound that drifted up and over Carroll’s right shoulder.As the seconds ticked off the clock, assistant captain Alex Biega forced the issue with a few hard far-range slapshots during a Crimson power play, and junior forward Doug Rogers had a couple of attempts at net from...
...Morin makes a close shot. Then Wright up against Morin, draws the foul. No surprise, he misses the first. Makes the second. Let's see how the Crimson finish. Harvard 57, Yale...
...months later he was dead, killed during one of the many bloody episodes in Iraq's brutal war. After the obligatory four-month mourning period dictated by Islamic Shari'a law, Atoor's mother and two brothers made it clear that they intended to sell her to a brothel close to their home in western Baghdad, just as they had sold her older twin sisters. Frightened, she told a friend in the police force to raid her home and the nearby brothel. His unit did, and Atoor spent the next two years in prison. She was not charged with anything...
...privately run Center for Employment Opportunities in lower Manhattan helps hundreds of inmates each year acquire basic skills and find employment while earning an income doing maintenance work on public buildings; close to 13,000 former inmates have found jobs through the organization, and simply enrolling there cuts the chances of landing back in prison by half. "Our people are usually in the back of the line for jobs, but [in the current economy] that line just got a lot longer," says CEO and executive director Mindy Tarlow, who notes that it is taking twice as many calls these days...