Word: antona
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Biagi and D'Antona were both dedicated reformers, passionately committed to modernizing Italy's labor laws. Biagi was one of the most articulate proponents of loosening up Italy's notoriously tight labor market. He had spearheaded the government's efforts to phase out Article 18, a measure that allows unjustly fired workers to get their jobs back rather than settle for financial damages. Labor leaders fiercely defend Article 18, which they say protects workers against arbitrary firings. The Red Brigades has a long history of striking against would-be labor-market reformers. Della Porta says the terror group believes that...
Last week's assassination was a virtual replay of the still unsolved slaying three years ago in Rome of another labor ministry consultant, Massimo D'Antona. The profiles of the victims are strikingly similar: both men divided their time between the professor's lectern and the government negotiating table; both were well-known and respected within government and academic circles but virtually unknown to the general public. "Easy targets," noted Donatella Della Porta, a terrorist expert at the University of Florence. Police even believe the same pistol was used to kill both...
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