Word: openly
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...need one store to close and then the next to open down the street without any time in between," Lee said. "If there is a shutdown for a long period of time, the move simply may no longer be possible from a monetary standpoint...
Then politics intervened. James and Nachman sued to contravene the rulings, which the Governor deemed obstructive federal intervention. A hiring freeze left social workers' positions vacant. Nachman refused to disburse "flex funds" that the court allowed counties to spend at their discretion, and social workers had to open charge accounts at Wal-Mart to buy diapers and clothes for children. Nachman later resigned amid controversy over allegations she had lied on her resume and had withheld information from a grand jury investigating whether the foster-care problems in Mobile were the result of criminal negligence...
...cost, for me, couldn't be better. PayPal and Billpoint are free to payers, and Billpoint is currently running a promotion that takes $1 off all purchases made with a Visa card. PayPal actually pays you $5 to open an account and another $5 for each friend you refer. Both services make their money by charging the seller a small fixed fee and a percentage of the total dollar amount sent on each transaction...
...Open Hand or Iron Fist...
Bombay's tiny but influential and prosperous community of Zoroastrians, known around the world as Parsi, is facing a thorny religious problem. The traditional Parsi death rite--the placing of a corpse in a dakhma, a small open-air amphitheater, where it is devoured by birds of prey in about two hours--is threatened...