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Another individual noted that at Harvard the difference between the two classifications is seen as a status symbol, separate from its definition under FLSA, creating potential unhappiness with reclassification...
When White House budget director Mitchell Daniels testified before the Senate Budget Committee this spring, he brought along a plump apple pie--an apt symbol for the government's bountiful budget surplus, then estimated at some $275 billion. But when Daniels appeared before the panel last week, his estimate of the spare cash fell as low as $160 billion. The committee's new Democratic chairman, Kent Conrad, served some baked goods too. He gave Daniels a modest pear tart with the words "shrinking surplus" inscribed in frosting...
...diet, squeezed him into a size-four dress, airbrushed the dark spots and tied him up with a pink ribbon as a gift to restless soccer moms across Middle America. You know what I’m talking about. The media machine responsible for making New York a symbol of glitz, lust and self-entitlement. This travesty is called “Sex and the City,” and it’s the worst thing to happen to New York since the Dodgers left...
...after the Oscars, but she still calls him "the greatest guy.") We follow her personal travails because we project our dreams onto movie stars, and so we want her to live happily ever after. A decade ago, as Pretty Woman's naughty-but-nice hooker, she became a sex symbol for the safe-sex era. But we resisted her in less glamorous roles like Mary Reilly's grim-faced maid...
...Internet deal with AOL Time Warner, he jokingly made a show of trembling hands to confidants. His gesture had a serious undertone. The $200 million agreement between these two strong-willed partners makes both sides nervous. Eighteen months in the making, it links behemoth AOL, the most visible symbol of American new media prowess, with Legend, a government-nurtured start-up that has grown to become China's most successful computer maker...