That their children will be denied legal status at some point in the future will make no palpable difference to folks confronting a life-and-death situation now.
If I really just want to know what time the meeting is, I may not care that you have updated your status message to point people to photos of your kids.
Stringfellow expects that most non-metropolitan parts of the country will revert to being largely free of lap dancing, with the capital's status as the focal point for adult entertainment remaining unchanged.
Another point is the status that France grants comic-book authors.
This is critical, because it is a easy arrow in the quiver of aid skeptics to point out that nonprofit status is not its own accountability mechanism.
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Speaking of news, I actually had a tough time finding an update on the Japanese nuclear situation on Sunday afternoon and none of the major news sites I frequent had even a bullet-point headline on the status of Daiichi reactors No. 3 and 4 this morning.
Premiums vary widely by marital status, age and sex because these characteristics point to potential claim activity.
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As Messrs Grossman and Shapiro also point out, a luxury brand confers status only because it is exclusive.
Arguing about its past status, he has insisted, is beside the point.
Each discrete data point was simple enough -- the status of a project, levels of need, locations of assets -- but in aggregate, the effect was transformative.
Upending defending national champ Miami in the closing seconds in front of the whole country was the fitting exclamation point that propelled him to true legend status.
As the folks who created this idea point out, the t-shirt was the status update before the status update was invented.
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The searches will initially be limited to people, places, interests and photos, but posts and status messages will be searchable this way as well at some point in the future.
Different organizations, ranging from the Bowles-Simpson Fiscal Commission to the House Budget Committee, have considered this current policy baseline to be the appropriate reference point, since it measures changes relative to the status quo, rather than the mix of expiring provisions and policy changes that would likely never be implemented.
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At some point, Mr. Sandlin was an enrolled agent, a status which can tend to show competence.
It can take weeks to get the results, by which point it's challenging to find the patient and their disease status might already have changed.
Moreover, the Jordanian near-miss underscores the point that we should take no comfort from the fact that the status of such weapons is unknown, since some of them may wind up being used outside Iraq.
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By crushing Nokia, Apple and Google took 5% out of the Finnish economy, wiped out the post-Psion, British OS Symbian, which had already found its way into over 350 million smartphones, and relegated Nokia to the status of struggling niche player, dependent on another US company, Microsoft, just at the point where it was going to write a new chapter in mobile, augmented reality and mapping.
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One, the status quo bias, has to do with our tendency to take our current situation as our reference point and to see any change as negative (or at least difficult) and with a high potential for regret.
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The success of Proenza Schouler's luxe PS1 three years ago may have been a turning point, both for the brand and for satchels themselves, which gained "It bag" status.
Now the phone that gets all the press, that is hailed as revolutionary (although how revolutionary is a hotly debated point, and best kept for another time), and is still seen as a powerful status symbol, is crashing in price.
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