Hers was unusual in the use of a buttery yeast dough, where others that I found relied on cake mixes or Crisco.
María La Gorda would have been a little difficult to find if we had relied solely on the map.
So she filed a complaint and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ultimately found — relying on Supreme Court precedent and other cases — that discriminating workers on the basis of their gender identity was indeed considered discriminatory under Title VII because it penalizes them for failing to conform to gender stereotypes, explained Justine Lisser, a spokeswoman for the commission.
She found that relying on cash alone has two big downsides.
She found herself relying on weed, and eventually crack cocaine, to cope with the symptoms of her deteriorating mental health, which included hallucinations.
When she accepts an assignment, Mrs. al-Nahi said, she finds herself relying heavily on serendipity.
For now she will have to make do, pouncing on jobs where she finds them, relying on a mix of expansive good humor and flintiness to see her through.
Grappling with an unplanned pregnancy in an environment where contraception and abortion are hugely stigmatized, she finds herself relying on a Jackson-based Crisis Pregnancy Center, and the support of the center's adamant anti-abortion director, Barbara Beavers.
To teach flamenco these days here in the epicenter of the dance, she finds she must rely more on showing than telling: Though the 10 women in her class this morning are all accomplished dancers in their 20s and 30s, only one is Spanish.
As she does not speak English, Mr. Olmos provided her with a synopsis in Spanish, but even so, she said she found much of the play, which relies on ample symbolism and abstraction, confusing.
