Word: louisiana
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...addition to the 25 students who volunteered in Louisiana and Mississippi, seven more spent their breaks working for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in Washington...
...workers came from Texas, Mississippi, Florida, and other parts of Louisiana. I would estimate that more than half of the workers we spoke to had outstanding wage and hour claims—for the most part shady contractor or subcontractor outfits who promised them one wage but ended up paying another, failed to pay overtime, made illegal deductions and, the issue that came up perhaps most frequently, just skipped town without paying up at all,” Chen wrote...
...this movie's writer and co-star and a first-time director, how nervous were you that you would crash and burn? Not at all. I grew up in Louisiana, where they throw you in a creek and say, "Swim...
...This meeting, however, was a relatively small gathering attended by some two dozen people, including Garza and another Indian tribal leader who was Abramoff's client. At least two tribes, the Coushatta of Louisiana and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw, contributed $25,000 each to the anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform, which is headed by Grover Norquist, a well-known conservative ally of the White House. Garza, who is also known by his Indian name, Makateonenodua, meaning "black buffalo," is under federal indictment for allegedly embezzling more than $300,000 from his tribe...
Mayor Ray Nagin's call for a "chocolate New Orleans" sounded pretty tasty to a Louisiana man who has sold some 3,000 WILLY NAGIN AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY shirts at imnotchocolate.com...