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Job security. There's no such thing as job security. We live in an era where you're lucky to have worked for the same company for three or more years. Both employer and employee regard for loyalty has wavered in recent years. The thing to seek today is "income security." Income security lies in talent, skills and know-how that are both marketable and transferable-meaning you can adapt and apply your skill in a variety of ways to earn money. One lesson that should have been learned, particularly in regions that were heavily dependent on the steel industry, is that blue-collar type jobs lack both marketability and transferability. Blue-collar type jobs are generally good paying labor-intensive jobs. If you're fortunate enough to work until retirement as a laborer-great! The problem arrive...
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[Cam]'ron the leader of the Dip Set was shot two times while leaving a club in Washington D.C. after Howard's homecoming. Killa Cam sounds healthier and better than ever as he addresses the incident in "Get Em Daddy" spitting lines like "Ha Ha who you think you car-jacking/you dump and dump/and I slump and I slumped/they mad my cars like a elephant/the trunks in the front." Killa Cam definitely hasn't lost his sense of humor because when he was in the emergency room it was said that he asked the nurse for her number. He said he took the bullets like "Scooby snacks," meaning he took the shots with ease. I don't know how true that is but I know the hip-hop world is happy Killa Cam is all right. We can't afford to lose another one of our top emcees and to ignorant violence. I like the fact...
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There's no two ways about it. There's no way to avoid it. You know what I'm talking about. There's a reason the story of the civil rights movement was written in our schools. There's a reason Thurgood Marshall took up the cause of Linda Brown. There's a reason why the Little Rock Nine defied a governor and a mob. It's because there is no stronger weapon against inequality and no better path to opportunity than an education that can unlock a child's God-given potential. (Applause.)
We've got to say to our children, yes, if you're African-American, the odds of growing up amid crime and gangs are higher. Yes, if you live in a poor neighborhood, you will face challenges that somebody in a wealthy suburb does not have to face. But that's not a reason to get bad grades - (applause) - that's n...
...You know. (Laughter.) That's the meaning of community. That's how we can reclaim the streng...
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There's no two ways about it. There's no way to avoid it. You know what I'm talking about. There's a reason the story of the civil rights movement was written in our schools. There's a reason Thurgood Marshall took up the cause of Linda Brown. There's a reason why the Little Rock Nine defied a governor and a mob. It's because there is no stronger weapon against inequality and no better path to opportunity than an education that can unlock a child's God-given potential. (Applause.)
We've got to say to our children, yes, if you're African American, the odds of growing up amid crime and gangs are higher. Yes, if you live in a poor neighborhood, you will face challenges that somebody in a wealthy suburb does not have to face. But that's not a reason to get bad grades - (applause) - that's n...
...You know. (Laughter.) That's the meaning of community. That's how we can reclaim the streng...
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The Supreme Court heard 80 minutes of lively argument Tuesday over a question that would have baffled the Founding Fathers: What is a "hydrological connection," and how did this "connection," whatever it is, slip into the Constitution?
The nine justices, including the newest one, had no problems with "hydrological." They know how to interpret out-of-town words. They were clearly troubled by a different and deeper meaning of "connection" - the connection, that is, between the powers vested in Congress under the Commerce Clause and the swampy few acres involved in yesterday's two related cases from Macomb County, Mich.
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What do a traditional grandmother in the Midwest (that would be me) and a young gay performance artist in Seattle have in common? Plenty, I found out, thanks to a Web site my darling daughter Kate turned me onto: www.littlebrowndress.com. The site is tended with insight and humor by Alex Martin, a 29-year-old dancer and choreographer who had a little idea that turned into a big project: Starting last July, she would every day for a year wear the same dress - a simple dark-brown denim shift with shell buttons down the front that she made herself.
Like me and Kate - who bond over Goodwill forays, regarding life as an ongoing costume party and our bodies as fresh canvasses each morning - Alex has had a lifelong love of clothes paired with an abiding curiosity about what they symbolize. Alt...
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...As in these other clauses, the meaning of the word "crime" is defined (and circumscribed)...
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... is a transfer of property within the meaning of section 351. (iv) For ruling requests under sec...
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Gov. Gary Herbert tells us the only ethical reform he supports is increased transparency, meaning that all will know how much money he and legislators receive and from whom. This "reform" fits well with the governor's political strategy to assure his winning the upcoming special election. At the governor's recent fundraising gala, he raised more than $1 million from well-heeled special business interests.
Large, well-heeled donors always favor incumbents. If the goal is to assure the re-election of incumbents, then by all means, allow unlimited donations and then broadcast these sums – the transparency thing – to all who might be inclined to run against them. Herbert's ethics stance is at best disingenuous and at worst dishonest.
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Rather than understanding the world as only or primarily a physical reality, Native Americans understand the world from another internal reality. That reality comes from dreams and visions, as Lame Deer, a Lakota Holy Man said, "To us a man is what nature or his dreams, make him. We accept him for what he wants to be. That's up to him."(Lame Deer, 1972 : 153) Many Native Americans think [their] autobiogra- phy, [should] include events that they or others have perceived in dreams or visions. Knowledge derived from these sources is of vital importance in determining who one is and in developing a shared sense of personal identity. (Goulet, p. 181) Native Americans either self-define as Lame Deer states or are defined in a fluid sense by the family rather than being defined in some rigid m...
...- thing .." (Buechel, 1983: p.3 19) So the meaning of the third gender term, winkte is "to be on the ...