Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accept and savor his victory. Now he could forget the defeats, both the hairbreadth miss of 1960 and the humiliating rebuff of 1962. Now he could put behind him the fear that maybe he was, after all, a born loser. Now he could relish the fruits of unremitting labor for his party, of countless fund-raising dinners and victory banquets and formula speeches in remote towns. Now he could demonstrate to the nation-and perhaps to himself- just what his "great philosophy" is. Now, at last, he had achieved a goal that, six and eight years ago, seemed to have...
...army "instructors." The teams were finally able to force the rival Red Guard factions into "threeway alliances" and to put them under the firm control of 29 municipal, provincial and regional revolutionary committees. The subdued Guards were then shipped in wholesale lots to distant rural areas to live and labor while they learned to "serve the people...
...cards a day, with an estimated annual sale of $200 million. Died. Edward R. Burke, 87, Democratic Senator from Nebraska from 1935-41, who started as a New Dealer, but soon opposed F.D.R.'s attempts to pack the Supreme Court, levy a progressive income tax, and protect labor unions, thus losing his party's nomination in 1940; in Kensington...
...Audience. In the patient backs of the garment workers there are echoes of Daumier and Degas, while the light of Levine's Coney Island is haunted by the shades of Manet and Prendergast. Yet in choosing a 19th century idiom to depict the fast-disappearing world of hand-labor shops and nostalgic memories of big-city beaches, Levine is, after all, doing only what any artist must-suiting style to subject...
...construction costs. Land and materials prices have jumped sharply, and a severe shortage of carpenters, plumbers, electricians and bricklayers has led to soaring wage rates in many cities. All kinds of external pressures, from big-lot zoning to archaic building codes (which are often kept restrictive by local labor and political pressures), are making it increasingly difficult to erect low-cost housing...