Word: firm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...levels of the Great Depression. "There is no way right now that anyone can make money here in agriculture, no matter how you figure it," said farmer Joe Vandewater. He took note that the day before in the same room, Forbes had not mentioned price, cost or any firm plan for the future of agriculture. But there was the free barbecue--and the little gold...
...Laughlin said the company responded by hiring a law firm with a union-busting reputation and dismissing five workers in what union officials called retaliation...
Harvard officials responded by claiming that the University is not permitted to intervene in a private labor dispute between another firm and its employees...
...union representatives have argued that Harvard could set minimum wage standards, and that now that Everett is no longer capable of finishing the job, Harvard has a responsibility to see that the firm's workers are employed...
...said all of the workers employed by Everett Decorators are ethnic minorities, as is the owner of the firm. And while Laughlin said the firm's owner benefited from preferences given to minorities in the contract bidding process, he said the benefits are not being passed on to minority workers...