Word: sentimentals
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...experiment with her gender. Rosenberg said that the TTF supported the drag workshop because it is trying to raise awareness of the fact there are people out there “who don’t fit into boxes of male or female.” Echoing this sentiment, Women’s Center Director Susan B. Marine said she hoped students would learn that gender is something that can be playful. Gender “is not just what we all wake up with, it’s fun and creative. I hope workshops like these let people explore...
...such sentiment is likely to fall on deaf ears in host countries, where unskilled foreign laborers not long ago were welcomed as useful contributors to economic development. The Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) once campaigned for the protection of migrants' rights. But now they too are sounding alarm bells about the threat illegal workers pose to ordinary wage-earning Malaysians. "Many remain in the country," says Rajasegaran Gopal, the MTUC's secretary general. "We have a foreign worker time bomb ticking away...
...with their constructions. The birth of any tradition comes with growing pains and the codification of what is considered acceptable or excessive. The boats that prompted HUPD’s initial response this year probably went too far, but this lesson should be passed down. Quad boats, and the sentiment behind them, should continue as a tradition...
...Treasury will probably make public the results of the bank stress tests that it has conducted in recent weeks. If stocks perform well in the face of bad quarterly numbers, or mixed news on the stress tests, market analysts will take that as a strong indicator that investor sentiment is truly turning...
...thanks to the climate crisis and a 30-year stretch without serious accidents in the U.S., no-nukes sentiment has faded; a Gallup poll this month found that 59% of Americans now support atomic power. The industry has an even broader base of bipartisan support in Congress, which continues to funnel it billions of dollars worth of loan guarantees, tax breaks, insurance benefits and direct subsidies; the latest goodie is "risk insurance," which will reimburse the industry for regulatory delays. States are devising even more creative incentives for new plants; Florida has promised to pay utilities for nuclear investments even...