Word: stiffs
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...name is Scott Fried, I live in New York City, and this is what HIV looks like on a man,"? said Fried, addressing his audience - two young mothers breast-feeding their infants and a group of young toughs in stiff new blue jeans chain-smoking cigarettes. He reassured them that you can't get AIDS from touching someone who is infected or breathing the air after they sneeze, and you can't get AIDS from a child who is infected with HIV. Fried, who is gay, also told them what it had been like to tell his conservative Jewish parents...
...vine across the U.S. in a ripple effect from last year's slight uptick in immigration enforcement; imagine what a wholesale move to a perennially backlogged system could bring. David Card, a labor economist at the University of California, Berkeley, says guest-worker programs are simply too stiff to fit with the dynamic U.S. market, both inside and outside agriculture. "Our strength is that our economy is fluid," he says. "If we need labor all of a sudden in New Orleans, the workers just show up. Once you rely on a guest- worker program, you have a huge amount...
...Downie, his 22-year-old fellow plaintiff, both come from a long line of fishermen, and their fathers were together on a boat that sank in 1980. Nobody died in that wreck, and nobody thought to file a compensation claim. They returned to sea the following week. Today, stiff, stooped and grimacing as he makes a pot of tea, Beedie's father Willie struggles to answer when asked how he feels about his son's case. "You want what's best for your son and for your grandchildren," he says, but he adds: "Fishing is not an easy life...
...Harper is also a charisma-challenged politician who wants a majority government in the next election but has not been able to dispel perceptions that he is cold and remote. (Shortly after winning office in January 2006, newspapers showed a stiff new PM shaking hands with his young son while dropping him off at school. Now photos on the Prime Minister's website show Harper holding homeless kittens.) Canadians might sympathize with a leader who ruefully said he was too busy worrying about running the country to read many novels, but giving a popular author the cold shoulder looks, well...
...acted more like an American portfolio manager, discarding businesses that didn't meet profit targets or fit into his megacities strategy. Co-workers say Kleinfeld, a music lover who plays a mean blues harmonica, is easygoing and adaptable, a contrast to the stiff corporate culture of Von Pierer's world...