Word: uppityness
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The threat of an INS bust has become a weapon in the arsenal of antiunion employers. When undocumented Latina chambermaids at the Holiday Inn Express in Minneapolis, Minn., voted to join the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union last year, management called in the INS, and they were hauled off...
For now, though, Bush is feeling good, smacking down uppity reporters at the Tuesday press conference and bidding farewell to the Cabinet-making process with an oh-so-W. signoff:
For now, though, Bush is feeling good, smacking down uppity reporters at the Tuesday press conference and bidding farewell to the Cabinet-making process with an oh-so-W. signoff:
In an election in which authenticity is a must, Bush's attachment to Midland has the added value of being true. He spent his formative years there, before the family moved to Houston when he was 12, playing baseball, throwing rocks and riding his bicycle to the Roy Rogers movies...
It is understandable that a sudden influx of "outsiders" might be slightly annoying, especially when law students show up to work and are turned away at the door because some uppity first-year has stolen their seat.