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Applicants for permanent residence status as a rule are more restricted in their travel outside of the United States and must seek permission from the INS to travel or risk abandoning their application.
§ 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a) (1994) (an alien "having residence in a foreign country which he has no intention of abandoning who is coming temporarily to the United States to perform agricultural labor or services . . . of a temporary or seasonal nature").
This gives network executives three choices: 1) They can keep coming up with new shows but risk losing the audiences from the last ones; 2) They can find a way to retard characters' development; or 3) They can figure out how to let characters grow without abandoning of original concept for the show.
Congressional Democrats and Republicans have cooperated in abandoning war powers.
Among the findings: The voters approve of George W.'s equivocations on the cocaine question--largely because they resent the perceived arrogance of the media; they cannot agree what the correct GOP stance on abortion and gun control should be; and they now hate Newt Gingrich and love Bush the Elder, whom they regret abandoning in '92.