Word: conference
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...enter the INS. It took a look at the new law and found a loophole. And it intends to make something of it. While granting illegal immigrants amnesty, the immigration bill failed to confer permanent legal status on those who have been living in the country as temporary legal residents. Legally allowed in the U.S. for a limited period under what is known as the H-1 program, these people are technically subject to deportation as soon as their visas expire. Their fates consequently rest in the hands of the INS, which has refused to show mercy and has begun...
Whatever regulatory tinkering is tried, current stock-market trends cannot be entirely reversed. Some of the benefits that computerized trading confer on institutional investors vs. individual investors are permanent. One of those advantages is the ability to buy and sell entire portfolios of stock at once, rather than individual issues. Admits SEC Commissioner Joseph Grundfest: "One of the wonderful things about Wall Street has been that the small investor could lay the same bets as the big boys. Now you might need $9 million to play." He adds, "If you're not computer sophisticated, you're behind the eight ball...
...disparagingly referred to her as "Chatterbox" and "Mother" -- but today she still thinks the struggle was worth it. Says Brundtland: It was tough, but "it gave me enormous strength to know that I was leading a fight on behalf of all women." Being a woman, however, does not automatically confer success. Indeed, the Labor government's popular-approval rating recently sank to 32%, fueling speculation that its days are numbered. Brundtland has been criticized for proposing new social spending at a time when low prices for Norway's government-owned North Sea oil have reduced export earnings from almost...
...personal letter assuring the Soviet leader that Daniloff was not a spy and asking for his release. Within a few days, negotiations were under way in both Washington and Moscow. Dubinin and other senior Soviet diplomats made at least four unannounced calls at the State Department last week to confer about Daniloff, while in Moscow U.S. Charge d'Affaires Richard Combs pursued contacts at the Soviet Foreign Ministry...
That some causes and not others are accorded the honorific "root" has consequences. The first is to confer some special legitimacy on one set of grievances and thus on the revolutionary action that is taken in its name...