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...economies: mindful of that youth bulge, Riyadh is imposing a "Saudi-ization" program that requires businesses to hire more locals. It doesn't help that employers don't have access to half the potential workforce: despite some recent gains for women, only small numbers of them have overcome the stiff cultural resistance to females going to work...
...table as a party rages elsewhere in Paris' mansion. Wearing what appears to be a "transvestite Paris" Halloween costume, Hilton asks Sheen for help crafting her "FoPo" (foreign policy, silly) and economic platforms. Citing the current global economic crisis as "the biggest Depression since The Notebook," she gives a stiff, rehearsed stance on what should be done in Iraq and with the crumbling mortgage market - at least in that respect managing to hold her own with certain real candidates...
...wrung out of the system. Yes, it will hurt. But he remains sure of one thing. "We've got a city we are proud of," he says. "There's a feeling that London is a good place, and that hasn't changed." At troubled times like these, a stiff upper lip may be just what's needed...
...kindergartner skipping around in elastic waist banded leggings, I snuck into my older sister’s room to try on her new pair of super-slim-fit jeans from the Gap. Long story short, the jeans didn’t fit. An unfortunate combination of baby fat and stiff denim left me sulking in my stretchy spandex. Fifteen years later, I’m still wearing leggings. In fact, in my rebellious refusal to wear jeans at all last year, spandex became my second skin. It wasn’t too long before my obsession began spiraling to unhealthy...
...Further requests it be allowed to suspend this stiff UN language and talk like a normal person...