Word: tappingly
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...were eager to enforce the law. The fate of just one provision in the 1986 act is revealing. As part of the enforcement effort, the law called for a pilot program to establish a telephone-verification system that employers could use when hiring workers. It would allow employers to tap into a national data bank to determine the legal status of a job applicant. Only those who had legitimate documentation would be approved. With such a system, employers could no longer use the excuse that they had no way to verify a potential worker's legal status...
...spread the Word. Buckets were circulated and more than $90,000 was collected to get them on their way. The next stops on the tour are Detroit, April 7 and 8, and Philadelphia, May 12-13. If some teens can't make it, Teen Mania has managed to tap one particularly popular aspect of modern culture. It just launched the website battlecry.com, described as "MySpace with God in the middle...
...adorability, her sugary films were anathema to sophisticates, and parts of her plantation musicals (such as The Little Colonel and The Littlest Rebel in this set) were, and are, criminally patronizing. But even Dakota Fanning doesn't hit every one out of the park and, man, Shirley could tap-dance--dance away the Depression, some said, or at least the depression in Hollywood. Here's a three-part dose of optimism from the New Deal's youngest and most potent ambassador...
...quality. To take just one example, more than 700 U.S. cities--most of them older communities in the Northeast, Northwest and Great Lakes area--have sewer systems that regularly overflow into water supplies during heavy rainstorms, mixing dirty and clean water and sometimes requiring mandatory boiling to make contaminated tap water safe. A heavy rainfall preceded the majority of waterborne-disease outbreaks in the U.S. over the past 60 years, says Dr. Jonathan Patz of the University of Wisconsin at Madison...
...shows this spring introduce viewers to the world of high-stakes thievery, while series on tap for summer and fall look sympathetically at petty crooks and mobsters. Next year, Michael C. Hall, formerly of Six Feet Under, plays a serial killer on Showtime. He used to slab 'em. Now he'll stab...