Undocumented immigrant is not only not pejorative, it implies a moral judgement an implicit tut-tut for misplacing some papers of failing to dot ever i and cross every t.

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But to dot all the I's and cross all the T's, it will take a few more years.

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This senior official said that the Bush administration wanted to "cross t's and dot i's" before it authenticates or dismisses the latest e-mail.

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"Our job is not to exclude officers from the memorial, our job is to make sure we cross all the Ts and dot all the Is, " Floyd said.

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"We were right to do so, even if in the circumstances it was not possible to dot all the "i"s and cross the "t"s along the way, " he said.

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Unfortunately what they didn't do was dot the "i's" and cross the "t's" when creating and using the Department for Transport's complicated economic model for assessing franchise bids - which meant that in a judicial review of the Department's decision to go with First Group, launched by Virgin, the current holder of the franchise, the government was bound to lose.

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At the same time, I would say the folks that went down, I know that they were certainly trying to live above board, to cross the T's, to dot the I's, to do everything that they were told to do.

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Victor Matheson, an economist at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, says the nation's most recent recession was the dot-com bust, which hit around March of 2001.

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