Word: reliefs
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...Congress have used this recession as an excuse to enact legislation that makes it all but impossible for financial firms to hire skilled foreign graduates of American universities, including Harvard. A little-known provision in the ARRA classifies all firms receiving federal bailout funds from the Troubled Assets Relief Program as H-1B dependent, legally mandating them to find American citizens or legal permanent residents to fill any job opening before offering a position to qualified international applicants...
Rawalpindi is not a city where fortunes are made. It is a refuge for those seeking relief from the backbreaking labors of rural life and a home for those fleeing the violence on Pakistan's troubled frontier with Afghanistan. 'Pindi, as it is known, may be a stifling metropolis where crime goes unpunished and hard work unrewarded, but it also offers a chance at the first rung of a very long ladder toward financial stability. Yet that ladder goes only so high. The greensward of the Rawalpindi Golf Club teases the poor with dreams of the good life...
...Turned down George W. Bush's nomination to replace Michael Brown, who resigned in September 2005 amid a public outcry over his handling of Hurricane Katrina relief. Fugate has said he declined the job because "the timing wasn't right...
Moore and Zumbro were also called upon in their first collegiate weekend. Moore impressed in 2.2 innings of relief work, and though Zumbro endured a rocky start to the season, giving up six runs in two-thirds of an inning, both will be valuable members of the Crimson staff...
...Some groups, including the World Food Program and Catholic Relief Services, were allowed to continue operating. Still, several of the organizations were the only ones providing their particular services - MSF and the IRC, for example, were the sole providers of medical services in the Kalma, and their clinics will either be closed or run by internally displaced people with minimal training...