It's the dream of every tired 30-something office worker yearning for a career which stimulates as well as pays the mortgage: buy a vineyard in France, produce a prize-winning plonk that lines supermarkets shelves from London to Timbuktu, watch the profits roll in and finally sit back and enjoy the good life.
When thinking about immigration, there is little doubt that the least fortunate, and the ones with the most at stake in the outcome, are the poor workers who yearn to come to the United States to make a better life for themselves and their families.
In an amusing America Online feature last week, the $275,000 home that a $30,000 worker might yearn for would comparatively cost a $12 million star -- say, Peyton Manning or David Cone -- only $687.50).
Big stars will also make their presence felt elsewhere, as Ryan Reynolds stars in "The Voices," Marjane Satrapi's look at "a lovable but disturbed factory worker who yearns for attention from a woman in accounting," according to a festival description.
First, the nurse's question suggests perceived neglect of frontline workers, who are yearning for attention.
Cristina Babajko, 26, who works as a hostess at the Page Plaza and is studying to be a social worker, said she yearned for a mayor who breathed less rarefied air, and instead deeply understood what it was like to be in the working or middle classes.
The challenge for Skills for America's Future will be to break down data from different schools and employers to figure out how to reproduce these unusual successes quickly and efficiently, given how many workers across the country are yearning for similar results.
For the Valley, the H-1B program is a high-tech iteration of the message inscribed on the Statue of Liberty — except they're highly educated, highly skilled workers rather than huddled masses yearning to be free.
While Nazism was not exclusively – or even primarily – a working class phenomenon, the SA fulfilled the yearning of many unemployed workers for class solidarity and nationalist fervour.
