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...taking on those critical jobs: We need to make sure nurses and kindergarten teachers and social workers are paid on par with so-called "male" jobs like construction and plumbing. Is your child?s well-being or your parents? health care inherently worth less than having an efficient drain? I didn?t think...
...Hispanic and Congressional Black Caucuses from defecting, the bill's chief sponsors, Republican Christopher Shays and Democrat Martin Meehan, added last-minute sweeteners to allow these groups to raise some soft money for their get-out-the-vote programs. But House Speaker Dennis Hastert had managed to drain support for the Shays-Meehan bill with a substitute drafted by GOP Rep. Robert Ney which capped soft-money donations to national parties at $75,000. With the outcome too close to call, Hastert ordered the Rules Committee to rig the floor procedure for considering the measure so that Shays and Meehan...
...Paris casino, not the white tigers from India that frolic nightly with Siegfried and Roy, and certainly not the lush residential lawns that grow emerald-green year round in the desert region. But while the landmark replicas and exotic felines draw tourists and dollars, the well-coiffed lawns drain the city's resources because of the amount of water it takes to maintain them. That's why the Southern Nevada Water Authority has started offering homeowners money--40[cents] per sq. ft., with a $1,000 maximum--to rip up all or part of their lawn and replace it with...
...Lemmon the successful and award-winning actor made alpha male in 1962's alcoholic drama "Days of Wine and Roses," and the performance, opposite Lee Remick as his led-down-the-drain wife, is legendary. But the man was a born foil, whose career spiked in two collaborations. One was with Billy Wilder, who directed Lemmon in "Some Like It Hot" and "The Apartment," two of the best films of the century thanks in no small part to Lemmon, and after that, "Irma La Douce," "The Fortune Cookie," "Avanti!" "The Front Page" and "Buddy Buddy...
...other hand teaching the young kids is both a drain and a sustenance at the same time...