Word: exempt
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...seek penalties against employers through the state fair employment and housing department. The law currently applies to victims of bias on the grounds of race, gender, age or physical disability; AB101 would simply have added "sexual orientation" to the list. Businesses that employ fewer than five people would be exempt, as would religious organizations. But the legislation would have covered more than 80% of the state's employees...
...name of the tax-exempt beast is ETS, short for Educational Testing Service. ETS is responsible, if that is the word, for administering large gobs of the evil alphabet soup that you must take to get on with your educational career: PSAT, SAT, AP, GMAT, NTE, GRE. Most universities, or at least the ones you'd want to attend, make these tests a prerequisite to applying: no ETS, no education...
...life insurance. Last week a grand jury indicted Matthew and his accomplice McMahon on nine counts ranging from compounding a felony to unlawfully carrying a firearm. McMahon was also charged with accessory to murder after the fact -- a charge from which Matthew, as the killer's brother, is exempt under Massachusetts...
Western officials did not exempt Tudjman from fault. Said a U.S. diplomat: "The Croatian government is far from blameless or democratic, and it has severely discriminated against Serbs living in Croatia." But Milosevic's aims are expansionist, and success on his part threatens to undo everything the E.C. stands...
...tribal initiation rites. But other missionaries often tell the young people that their customs are primitive and barbaric. Relatives who have left villages for the city and return to show off their wealth and status also influence the young. Girls encounter educated women who work as clerks and are exempt from the backbreaking hauling done by their mothers' generation. How can these youngsters resist the allure of modern life? How can they make an informed judgment about which of the old ways should be respected and maintained...