Word: labor
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...bureaucracies, its concentration on material goals. Their aim is to transform the university from a personnel agency for the economy to a more vocal force for social protest and reform. They want it to take over the role once held by such recently tamed institutions as Britain's Labor Party, West Germany's Social Democrats, and U.S. trade unions...
...furor began when Enoch Powell, 55, a right-wing Tory M.P. from the industrial Midlands, launched an attack on an antidiscrimination bill introduced by the Labor government to protect Britain's 1,000,000 coloreds-a term that covers shades from light tan to dark black and encompasses Indians and Pakistanis as well as African and West Indian Negroes. Powell, a onetime teacher of Greek and a classics scholar, has a record for independence and strong-mindedness. Having decided in 1963 to try for the Tories' top job, he refused to serve in Alec Douglas-Home...
...losing many trained citizens who are emigrating to the West. Most of the Jews coming into Israel these days are from Arab lands and are not easily assimilated among educated Jews from Europe, who are concerned that the country may take on a Levantine rather than a Western character. Labor Minister Yigal Allon believes, however, that Israel can still offer Jews the "purposeful life" of a pioneer at a time when more affluent Western societies seem to "lack a social motive." Despite the uncertainty of their future, the Israelis themselves still find advantage in that life and intend to show...
...Colonel Tahar Zbiri, who was chief of staff until December, when he led an abortive coup to overthrow Boumediene. Still at large, Zbiri is a socialist zealot who resented the President's efforts to save Algeria's floundering economy by replacing revolutionaries with technocrats. Algeria's labor unionists are also at odds with Boumediene: they consider him not Marxist enough and blame him for an unemployment of 5,000,000, nearly half the work force. The small Algerian middle class hates Boumediene for dispossessing it from its once privileged position. And then, of course, there are Algeria...
King Vinnie. What he hears is that Carl Yastrzemski didn't just hit home runs, but "accomplished the ninth labor of Hercules, bringing a championship to Boston, a city whose previous baseball idol, Ted Williams, resembled that other great Greek, Achilles, who fought a great fight, but spent a lot of the time sulking in his tent." On another show, Broun likened the coach of the Green Bay Packers to "Canute-king, coach and general manager of the Britons, who commanded the waves to stop, but they broke through the lines. Vinnie Lombardi hasn't tried stopping...