Word: leached
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Denise Fairchild was artificially inseminated in 1997. She raised her son with her lesbian partner Therese Leach until the couple split in 2001. Now Fairchild wants to deny her former partner visitation rights, and she's citing Ohio's new constitutional ban on gay marriage. Since they were never legally married under Ohio law, Fairchild claims, Leach does not have the rights of a former spouse. Leach's attorney argues that the amendment doesn't apply to parent-child relationships. "I'm using a piece of legislation that will deny me rights later in life," Fairchild says. "But before...
...Under Bush, outsourcing should continue to fatten American corporate profits, but it also threatens to leach millions of jobs away from the U.S. service sector. The challenge for Bush is to ensure that American workers receive the higher education and vocational training they need, so that it's still worth paying them a premium. If he fails to do so, Asia will benefit...
...David C. Leach, executive director of ACGME, said in a press release yesterday that these studies “help validate that the ACGME is moving in the right direction in its regulation of duty hour standards.” He added that “continuing efforts to further refine the standards are needed...
...Leach, however, pointed out that the study may not have taken all factors into consideration...
Election officials confirm the need for this kind of support. Tom Leach, a spokesperson for the Chicago Board of Elections, said to the New York Times in August, “Training your poll workers gets harder every election. We’re laying more and more on the judges, and they’re not professionals, they’re senior citizens and housewives...