Jamaica was once the "it" spot for jet-setting Americans and British in the 1950s, only to follow Cuba down its revolutionary road in the '70s and now starting to break out of its resorts-behind-security-walls status.
Mr Malki's speech on Wednesday was the first Palestinian address to the Security Council since its status upgrade.
In this context, status quo security and economic interests are prone to clash.
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To verify social security number and citizenship status of student aid applicants.
For example, E-Verify denied employment to Juan Carlos, a naturalized U.S. citizen, after the State Department failed to notify the Social Security Administration of his status change.
FORBES: E-Verify: Immigration Reform's Threat To Legal Workers
They should recognise the emotions on either side, from a longing for security to a craving for status.
The difference, today, the experts say, is that security has reached top priority status as airlines bid to regain the public confidence -- and stay financially solvent.
The crew huddled defiantly in the corner until the last ritual of the prayer was performed, and our minder came rushing over to explain our status to the security guard.
Without the option of marriage, same-sex couples in years-long, committed partnerships regularly find themselves out in the cold when negotiating joint tax filing status, Social Security survivor benefits, hospital visitation, immigration and insurance benefits.
The Iraqi government said Tuesday it would review the status of private security companies as anger over the alleged involvement of Blackwater USA in a fatal shooting of civilians threatened to spread to other firms providing protection for dignitaries and Westerners on Iraq's chaotic streets.
The memorandum instructs the Director of the Information Security Oversight Office to publish a periodic status report on agency implementation of the Order.
The agreement commits the United States and Afghanistan to initiate negotiations on a bilateral security agreement, to supersede our current status of forces agreement.
And, broadly, they fall into three categories: security reasons, reasons of prestige or status, and not to be minimized, bureaucratic momentum--scientists get bigger budgets, people get promoted, the military likes these programs.
Whatever his instincts, Bashar has to deal with powerful security and political interests that benefit from the status quo and have mindsets firmly rooted in the past.
In a cavernous room packed with lobbyists and immigration activists, the panel rejected three attempts by opponents of the bill to impose tougher conditions on border security before unauthorized immigrants could apply for legal status.
As the third and independent authority of the State, the Egyptian Judiciary is comprised of secular and religious courts, administrative, non-administrative courts and a Supreme Constitutional Court, and penal courts, civil and commercial courts, personal status and family courts, national security courts, labour courts, military courts, as well as other specialized courts or circuits.
Graphics software company Adobe and security specialist Symantec have both used Microsoft's status as a monopoly to jab at Microsoft, particularly in Europe.
Among these, your government has stated that the barrier being erected by Israel should be a security rather than political barrier, should be temporary rather than permanent, and therefore not prejudice any final status issues including final borders, and its route should take into account, consistent with security needs, its impact on Palestinians not engaged in terrorist activities.
India wanted status, respect for its technological prowess, security on the cheap and the spin-off benefits, it hoped, of cheap nuclear power.
Moreover, it has largely been unexplored, likely the result of the region's longstanding status as an inconsequential piece of the global security architecture.
Like Mr Bush, they support a proposal, drafted in the Senate with bipartisan support, which would combine tighter border security with increased legal migration and steps to regularise the status of undocumented migrants.
Since the system is designed to determine the legal status of workers based on names, Social Security numbers and potentially personal biometric identifiers of every working age adult in America, worries about the system becoming a tool for ever-expanding federal purposes are legitimate.
FORBES: New Immigration Measure Means Expanded Government Reach
In Kabul, Mr. McDonough met with General Allen and other senior ISAF officials to discuss the military campaign, the transition process, and the status of building and strengthening the Afghan National Security Forces to assume responsibility as U.S. and coalition forces continue to draw down.
The measure would put millions who are in the U.S. illegally on a 13-year path to citizenship, while toughening border security requirements, mandating that all employers check the legal status of workers, and allowing tens of thousands of new high- and low-skilled workers into the country with new visa programs.
As well as raising issues about password security on Twitter, the incident also raises questions about the status of Anonymous.
We should lift the income cap on Social Security and we should continue to work at fixing the healthcare status quo.
After 10 years, people with provisional legal status could apply for permanent residency if the new security and fencing plans were operating, a new mandatory employment verification system was in place, and a new electronic exit system was tracking who leaves the country.
Known as the Federal Data Services Hub, the project is taking the IRS's own records (for income and employment status) and centralizing them with information from Social Security (identity), Homeland Security (citizenship), Justice (criminal history), HHS (enrollment in entitlement programs and certain medical claims data) and state governments (residency).
In this day and age, when Britain sometimes struggles to justify its status as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council or as a "major player on the world stage", the medal table may prove to be a more accurate measure of international standing than the size, for example, of the GDP or the armed forces.
As well as seeking job-security, sararimen have traditionally looked to the workplace to give them status, a social life and pay set according to seniority.
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