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...wrote her daughter, was "a powerful dynamo generating nothing," an imperious, high-strung woman given to firing her servants on a whim and more turbulent than Lady Macbeth. "I think perhaps you do not realise," Victoria complained to Lord Kitchener in the midst of World War I, "that we employ five carpenters and four painters and two blacksmiths and two footmen, and you are taking them all from us!" Victoria was so beset with lawsuits in her ill-tempered old age that she referred to her last residence, a Brighton villa, as the Writs Hotel...
...three papers have a combined circulation of 3.3 million copies daily, and employ 10,000 workers...
Perhaps it is native to expect the U.S. to employ noble conceptions of justice and morality in the execution of foreign policy. But in the case of Namibia, the U.S. must recognize that in the long run, the pursuit of justice will have its more pragmatic advantages. In 1975, Rep. Charles Diggs (D-Mich.) told a Congressional hearing, "Independence in Namibia is now inevitable and the implications for long-term U.S. access to resources in Namibia...are clear. Certainly a majority-ruled, independent Namibia would be mindful of what action the United States is taking now to expedite progress toward...
...expect I'd like it much," Byron admits, "but I'd sure like to see what it's like." Many children who inhabit the wheat belt have a secret desire to spend a summer roaming from state to state with the cutters. The Smalls each year employ 14 hired boys (including Byron). The members of the crew live in motel rooms, paid for by the Smalls, eat bountifully of the well-prepared home cooking around the tables in the Smalls' house trailers, and make up to $200 a week. "You know what it would be like...
...leaders of groups against Harvard's investment policy contend that even if American companies were to initiate labor reforms, the firms would have no practical effect on the apartheid system because they employ only four-tenths of 1 per cent of the black work force in South Africa. American companies in which Harvard holds stock serve only to bolster the apartheid system by supplying the South African white-minority government with the funds it needs to continue building a strong military and police force, the anti-apartheid group...