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...going to use these individuals in a capacity as employees and try to skirt around it by saying they're students, it's completely unfair to the graduate students," Dearborn added. "It's sort of a labor pool they're able to abuse...
...national ramifications - Massachusetts attorney general Thomas Reilly implemented a three-year-old set of regulations that puts guns under the purview of the state's consumer-products regulatory body. That move follows three years of appeals by the gun lobby against the regulations, which allow the attorney general to skirt the state legislature in policing gun sales. Similar measures have been passed by attorneys general in 34 other states, but this is the first to be enacted...
...Cascades, built for ultrahigh speeds, can do only 79 m.p.h. on existing tracks, but its pendular suspension means it doesn't have to slow down going around curves--of which this route has many. For much of the way, you skirt the shores of the lovely Willamette, Columbia and Toutle rivers. The view gets even more spectacular as you follow the coastline of the vast and misty Puget Sound. So close to the water do you ride that you often feel you're not on a train at all but on a boat, with blue water and skies...
...Beach, DiCaprio finds this impossible to refuse. Still, he is hyper-aware of how this will play out in print: "That should be the title of the piece: 'Leonardo DiCaprio: What's His Beef?' And you'll base the whole article on the type of beef I choose. Skirt steak: the thinnest, unmanliest, most wussy, soft meat you could buy," he says. (See sidebar...
...exhibition catalog] you somewhat skirt the issue of regionalism in your definition of Boston art. Have you ever felt that a scene comparable to, say, Chicago in the '70s has existed around here...