Word: employer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compete, some U.S. garment-makers are turning to illegal sweatshops, where they employ undocumented aliens who earn about $1 or $1.25 an hour. Such operations already account for an estimated 10% of all women's and children's clothing. Since many manufacturers contract out 90% of their cutting and sewing operations to smaller shops, they may be using illegal labor without knowing it. Or they may not want to know. With transactions off the books and final costs low, sweatshops are a good deal for everyone except the workers...
...most vocal support he has received so far in this campaign, termed the rally "an incredibly beautiful sight," before calling for an end to racism and stating his support for affirmative action and Boston Jobs for Boston People, a program that would require contractors hired by Boston to employ a certain number of local residents...
...tensions have spilled over into relations between the military commanders and the political directorate. The political wing is critical of the military, which it says has failed to employ more feasible guerrilla strike operations. Says a senior F.D.N. official of his military colleagues: "We even have different field commanders feuding over their territorial prerogatives. One unit was fired on by our own men for crossing into another zone." On the other hand, when a political courier arrived in a field position earlier this month, he was berated by a senior commander: "You have only $150 to give me? I lost...
...doubt that the Soviets will choose to stay, their pervasive role in Ethiopia is far from fully supported. Traders in Addis Ababa's thriving bazaar, the Mercado, resent Soviet browsers, who rarely have enough money to buy their merchandise. "They keep to themselves and won't even employ Ethiopians as cooks or drivers," complains one resident. That undercurrent of hostility perhaps explains why Mengistu has not tried to impose many East-bloc values on a country whose Western links go back to the arrival of Portuguese explorers in the 16th century...
Pinter's vision of an oppressive world comes through in The Caretaker's staging, which takes up most of the space in the theater. Surrounded on three sides by the audience, the characters employ all sections of the stage. The actresses make excellent use of the props and the stage even when the audience is one foot away from their faces, they never blink out of character. Their costumes match their personalities, which are intense and never letting...