Word: rescinded
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...before her graduation, Monica Rana ’06 thought her future was settled. She had an apartment in New York and a job with Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), an investment banking company. But Rana received a call yesterday morning informing her that the company would probably have to rescind her job offer.Rana, who is from Nepal, said she just missed the cutoff for a H-1B work visa after her company sent in her visa application on May 26.That same day, the federal government had reached its 2006 quota of 65,000 work visas and stopped accepting visa petitions...
...public rejected the comments, they struck a chord with some. Given this history, the new Japanese fingerprinting law cannot help but have some very unpleasant connotations. It could, in effect if not in intent, strengthen xenophobia and play into the hands of demagogues. The Japanese Parliament should rescind this law foremost because its benefits –curbing unlikely terrorist attacks– are less assured than the undeniable costs of a more discriminatory and insular Japan. With its beguiling culture, intriguing history, and cutting-edge electronic innovations, Japan has much to offer the world. The world also has much...
...Cincinnati, Ohio: "These gas prices represent the failure of my opponent, Steve Chabot, and George Bush to fight for the middle class. The Republicans and Steve Chabot are giving [Big Oil] $14 billion in your money." The Democratic handout proposal was even more generous. The Dems want to rescind the gasoline tax for a while--which would stimulate demand...
...nerve in a society deeply attached to the idea that a job is forever. A poll last week found that more than two-thirds of the population - and more than 80% of the young people the law aims to help - want the government to rescind the law's terms. For some, opposition justified violence. At the Sorbonne, a minority of protesters hurled anything they could tear loose - umbrella stanchions, metal barricades, café chairs - at the shields of riot police, who replied with water cannon and tear gas. "The bourgeoisie to the gulag!" read a wall scrawl. Most of last...
...nerve in a French society deeply attached to the idea that a job is forever. A poll last week found that more than two-thirds of the population--and more than 80% of the young people whom the law aims to help--want the government to rescind it. The most agitated of them flocked to the Sorbonne last week and hurled anything they could tear loose--metal barricades, a camera tripod and dozens of Parisian café chairs--at the shields of riot police. A Mercedes was flipped over, and a Renault set alight; Minis were tossed about like toys...