Word: doings
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This will be the case as long as we live in a society that places hard work among its highest values. Many students spend more than 20 hours each week on part-time jobs and extracurricular activities before sitting down to do their homework.
So please, do not tell me that my exhaustion these days is reflective of my insufficient psychological coping mechanisms.
"We're very concerned that the community--students, faculty and visitors--won't have access to a lot of us who do the work, the ordering the receiving," said Karen O'Brien, a library assistant in the German division of the collection development.
The answer is this: The kind of trade promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO) locks these workers into sweatshops. Fifty thousand people protested the WTO meeting in Seattle because the WTO is an astonishing consolidation of corporate power. It has the power to override and do away with any...
And while the student anti-sweatshop movement has had a heartening string of recent successes, we wouldn't have to do this work at all if it were not for flawed organizations like the WTO.