Word: laisser
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...Ghaida had no citizenship until she moved to Austria. Born in Syria, she possessed only a Laisser-Passer, which identified her as a Palestinian living in Syria. When she moved to Vienna, however, she obtained Austrian citizenship...
...form the Palestine Liberation Organization, a kind of shadow government headed by Yasser Arafat. But they have little else. Israelis maintain that, as former Premier Golda Meir once put it, "there is no such thing as a Palestinian." Many of them carry no more proof of citizenship than the laisser-passer that have been issued to residents of the refugee camps supported by the United Nations but actually governed by the P.L.O. Still, they endure. Says Palestinian Writer Raymonde Tawil: '"We are like grass. The more you cut it, the more it will grow...
Americans currently use some 200 million credit cards, those convenient laisser-passers of an increasingly demonetized society. But what about the cash customer - is he getting an even break? In a suit filed in U.S. district court in Washington last week, the Consumers Union maintained that he is being shortchanged. Naming the American Express Co. and a member bank of the BankAmericard system, C.U. charged that credit-card companies are in effect guilty of price fixing...
...preaches the need for regular work. "I abhor this 'laisser-aller' attitude," she says, "that allows students the convenience of cramming and spurts of concentration!" If you have no other time to work, she once suggested, get up at seven...
...they have a right to let students on such a scholarship basis waste college funds and equipment. It is the duty of the authorities to prevent just this sort of waste in those who stay in college. It is this duty, owing to principles of self-education, liberty, and laisser-faire, perverted to mean indifference to the needs of a large proportion of the student body, which has been sadly shirked...