Word: letting
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...apart in a way that only the double-jointed Hasek can manage. Still, he was booed at the beginning of last year because he schemed to dump the team's popular coach. Last May he sat in his Jeep making calls as 1,500 fans--many of them children let out of school early--gathered a block away for a Sabres pep rally. Yet Hasek has been generous to Buffalo charities, and he took a lower salary than he could have earned in the free-agent market to stay with a middling team...
...some experience turning poisoned kids around had little hope for her. "I remember thinking when I met her," says church volunteer Vali Wilson, "that nothing was going to penetrate that shell." Her parents were advised to take her out of school, get her away from her friends, let her go out only to church and hope for a miracle...
...asking them about it. The youth ministries are flooded with calls and new visitors. At a Denver prayer lunch last week, faith and practice sat down together: everyone attending was asked to agree to mentor an "at risk" kid. "That would change the city," said organizer Don Reeverts. "Let's put some shoe leather on our prayers...
...commodities prices have been edging higher for a month. Cyclical companies can raise prices in that kind of environment, which makes them far less vulnerable to the dark side of economic growth--inflation and higher interest rates. If rates, which have also been going up, keep rising, it will let air out of a lot of consumer stocks, like Wal-Mart and Merck. Tech stocks would also suffer. Rising rates are terrible for bonds...
...government cannot go. By a 7-to-2 vote, the Justices ruled that the people?s constitutional right to travel prohibits states from paying lower benefits to new residents than to longtime residents. The practice, which had been authorized by Congress in 1996, and whose intent was to let states keep out the needy they do not want from other states, strikes down the welfare residency rules of California and quite possibly those of 14 other states, including big ones such as New York and Florida...