Word: seeker
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...applicants produce documents indicating they are legal residents of the U.S. The aim is to dry up the flood of illegal immigrants across the 2,000-mile Mexican border by discouraging business people from hiring the aliens. In theory, however, the provision would apply to every type of job seeker: Wall Street investment firms would have to demand documentation for Caucasian M.B.A.s, just as Texas restaurants would for dark-skinned would-be dishwashers. The major exemption is for people who employ no more than three workers; families with a maid or gardener would not be troubled. But firms caught hiring...
Since the Square is frequented by many non-Harvard students, the drink-seeker should understand that young-looking preps are less welcome some places than others...
...sense, the head-on collision between the state's two most powerful politicians is a clash of the New South vs. the Old. Hunt, 46, is a consensus seeker and problem solver. Though he has little flair for oratory and not much of a sense of humor, his following ranges from impoverished blacks to progressive educators and white businessmen struggling for economic growth. Even Republicans concede that Hunt has run the state well, attracting $13 billion in new business investment, adding 207,000 new jobs, improving roads and schools...
...animosity and join forces to conquer the oil-rich southern coast of the Pesian Gulf. Bored with life in Cambridge, Webster allows himself to be captured by the Paks so he can implement the plan. Soon the CIA gets into the act, as well as a Capitol Hill headline-seeker, a KGB mole in the White House, and an ex-leftist ex-CIA agent "with eyes like faded blueberry stains on a white table-cloth." Webster and a CIA killer with a heart of gold decide that GULFSCENE III must be stopped...
...took the part himself in the original Italian production, and, obviously, the Fool is essentially Fo. As wonderfully played at the Arena by Richard Bauer, the Fool behaves like Karl Marx masquerading as Dr. Hugo Hackenbush. He is what the Russians call a yurodivy, an elaborately disguised truth seeker, an anarchist-individualist working under deep cover...