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“These changes will lessen the quality of immigration case decisions and the speed at which immigration cases are adjudicated,” the letter stated.

Staff at the emergency department there started adapting the disposable male urinal bottle for women to use, lessening the need for catheters and making life more dignified and pain-free in hospital.

The bill’s author, State Sen. John Laird, said the legislation is intended to “restore some equilibrium,” lessening the financial blow to public agencies while still upholding a victim’s right to sue.

"Clearly the severity of the immediate crisis has been lessened," Mr Friedman says, referring to last week's exemption for smartphones.

Sarah Sherman's impersonation of Aimee Lou Wood on a recent episode of "Saturday Night Live" was gone in a flash, but that didn't lessen the sting for the star of "The White Lotus."