He told Mr. Lew the issue of short-term work visas shouldn't be mixed up with immigration, according to an account of the meeting Mr. Chidambaram gave to Indian media.

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As Trask, 59, describes it, all his love of the American West came welling up in him, mixed with his wish to be independent, to be his own boss, like the cowboys of old.

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"I consider stripes and polka dots to be neutrals, " said Ms. Tomasi Hill, who's known for her artfully mixed-up ensembles.

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It was simply not "plausible" for social care to be funded out of general taxation, he added, and the proposed mixed system would ensure the state picked up the "catastrophic risk" and made sure "nobody is uninsured if they turn out to be very unfortunate".

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