Word: turned
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...included on presidential electionballots, candidates must turn in petitions with atleast 100 student signatures...
...Microsoft as "the great Satan." Bill Gates as Beelzebub is actually a familiar trope in computerland. The Internet is filled with discussion groups debating whether Gates is the devil and Microsoft the Evil Empire. Search the Web for sites that pair the words Gates and Satan, and you'll turn up tens of thousands of hits. Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig was a court-appointed monitor in an earlier Justice Department suit against Microsoft before Gates' lawyers uncovered an old e-mail in which Lessig joked that when he installed Microsoft's browser on his computer he "sold his soul...
Another place to turn to for job contacts is a temporary-staffing firm, which can find short-term assignments in your area of interest. About 10% of those employed by such firms are 55 and over, notes Richard Wahlquist, executive vice president of the National Association of Temporary and Staffing Services. Some of the biggest industries looking for temporary professionals include law firms, engineering companies and information-technology firms. "It's not uncommon today to see companies looking for temporary CFOs or doctors or accountants," Wahlquist says...
Government action has been minimal. In the past five years only a handful of sweatshop owners has been prosecuted for failing to pay workers. The government failure has created an even more lawless enclave. Local cops say that as the immigrants become more desperate for money, they often turn to crime. According to Tommy Ong of the New York police intelligence division, the sleazy employment agencies under the Manhattan Bridge that specialize in placing illegal immigrants in jobs around the country often misrepresent and oversell the type of work available. When workers return and can't pay off their immigration...
...leaders disgusted them and the economy frightened them, they got a wholesome epic. McGwire and Sosa congenially ribbed each other into amassing 136 home runs while Cal Ripken ended his fantastically mundane consecutive game streak by silently slipping away because it was time to let someone new have a turn. And the Yankees played hard, worked together and won a lot of ball games. We got everything we wished We hope, when you tell this story, America won't need baseball as badly...