Word: labors
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...darker consequences of open borders and closed minds alike. The former lure indocumentados into risking their lives getting here and straining the social infrastructure once they do; the latter cause xenophobes to ignore the causes of illegal immigration - the deep poverty down there and the deep demand for cheap labor up here - and block the necessary and reasonable proposals for managing it (a la last summer's immigration reform debacle...
...also depict the uplifting immigrant success stories and the broad economic benefits the U.S. derives from its underground workforce. But what distinguishes the film is its entrancing, flesh-and-blood glimpse into the quirky, angst-ridden workings of the indocumentado world: heated kitchen-table debates back home, demeaning labor cattle calls and desperate housing improvisations in the U.S. (including makeshift rooms over loud, 24-hour racquetball courts in Queens). It's a milieu ripe with characters like a stuttering S&M photographer played with delightful understatement by Golden Globe nominee John Leguizamo (To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar...
Casey said he expected a group of senators, including Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, who chairs the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions that Faust is addressing, to propose an amendment this week to increase NIH funding by $1.8 to $2 billion, or more than six percent increase over the current year's budget...
...what’s happening in the biological sciences right now, as if we’re in another scientific revolution,” Faust said. “This is a time of such unprecedented possibility.”Members of the Senate Committees on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, which has jurisdiction over NIH, largely expressed support for Faust’s cause.“It’s a committee that has been very supportive of NIH, so the response was extremely positive,” she said in an interview following the testimony.A bipartisan group...
...credibility in the eyes of the French people. His approval ratings plummeted to below 50 percent for the first time since his election in May 2007. Sarkozy’s approval ratings have followed a definite downward trend since the series of large-scale strikes against his labor and education reforms in the fall of 2007. Various groups of public employees including teachers, civil servants, and public transport workers responded with anger to Sarkozy’s plan to slash France’s generous pensions. Perhaps their anger had something to do with the fact that Sarkozy, while espousing...