The claim may be extravagant, but it is true that in few other towns have homosexuals come so far so fast to occupy a conspicuous place in cultural life.

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You will be required to post a notice for 10 business days in a conspicuous place at the job site listing the offered wage and your intention to hire a H-1B worker.

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Now Bill Gates has taken Rockefeller's place as the man with the conspicuous market share, and Wal-Mart is the target of legislators who think retailing efficiencies should not be permitted to get out of hand.

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Now Bill Gates has taken Rockefeller's place as the man with the conspicuous market share, and Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) is the target of legislators who think retailing efficiencies should not be permitted to get out of hand.

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As an incumbent with high approval ratings, no need to run for office again, and an eye on his place in history, Clinton has become Washington's most conspicuous and sweaty convert to the cause of campaign-finance reform.

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Normally falling bond yields lead to rising equity prices as investors place a higher value on future earnings, but this effect has been conspicuous by its absence in the current bear market.

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