Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forbids foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies to sell to Cuba; Dutch and Swedish firms report that they too are being pressured by Washington to stop providing such items as catheters and sutures. A Canadian firm was even barred from selling Cuba a U.S.-made steel pin to repair a broken operating table. Medical journals are included under the embargo...
These are hard times for workers in the world's largest officially communist state. The "iron rice bowl" of guaranteed employment has been broken, and in the past year millions of Chinese from the cash-strapped state sector have been fired, laid off or furloughed at half their salaries. In 1993 in Heilongjiang province alone 2 million workers lost their jobs. Millions of others are being exploited by China's new private entrepreneurs -- overworked, physically abused and paid less than the minimum wage. Working conditions are frequently unsafe; the number of workers killed or injured in mine disasters and industrial...
...Taiwanese, Hong Kong and South Korean manufacturers, and the official All-China Federation of Trade Unions (A.C.F.T.U.) has been encouraged to organize workers in foreign- owned factories. But at the same time Beijing has made clear that it will not tolerate unsanctioned labor organizing. Worker protests have been broken up, often brutally, by police. Labor dissidents have been harassed, arrested, forced underground and chased into exile. In China today, nothing triggers violent repression more readily than the threat of a Solidarity-style independent labor movement...
...details come less than 24 hours after the release of a chilling audiotape of Nicole Brown Simpson's 1993 call for help. The recording of the 911 call includes O.J. Simpson shouting angrily in the background. Nicole was fighting tears as she told a 911 operator that Simpson had broken into the house. She was advised by the operator to stay on the line, but Nicole fell silent as Simpson continued to rage. Garbled expletives could be heard. L.A. district attorney Gil Garcetti, who criticized the release of the tapes, says he will meet no more media requests for information...
...lose their health coverage, food stamps, public housing and child care. Marriage too comes with a penalty. Mary Ann Mendez, a mother of three in Harlingen, Texas, received only Medicaid benefits when she was living with her common-law husband, who worked periodically. When he left her, however, her broken home was showered with benefits: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), more food stamps, gas money to get to and from school, and free day care. "It doesn't seem like they want families to stay | together," she says...